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Study Day The First Actress Saturday 1 December 2012 This study day is an examination of the theatrical approaches used by women playwrights to question the role of the actress. This is presented in the context of the theatrical convention that excluded women from the stage for centuries. This study day will be delivered by Professor Lesley Ferris, an Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Theatre at The Ohio State University. 100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G2 3DB www.rcs.ac.uk STUDY DAY The First Actress Saturday 1 December 2012 10am – 4pm £40 (Current Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Staff and Students £30) Book in advance: Telephone 0141 270 8213 Email [email protected] Who is the Study Day for? This study day will be of interest to you if you are a current student or have a general interest in theatre and performance or women’s studies. Study Day Outline Beginning with an introduction called the History of the Actress, the day will include discussion, readings and staging of short excerpts of relevant play texts. The main focus will be on The First Actress produced by the Pioneer Players, a theatre society established in the early 1900s. Other texts to be discussed are Playhouse Creatures by April De Angelis, Mrs. Pat by Pam Gems and The Summer in Gossenass by Maria Irene Fornes. Preparing for your Study Day Participants will be provided with the script for The First Actress on the day. Students may wish to familiarise themselves with the other texts to be discussed. Forthcoming talks and study days: 20 February 2013 April De Angelis – A Life in Playwriting 11 March 2013 Bridget Escolme and Aoife Monks – Work and Wear in Performance 13 March 2013 Liz Burton-King – Stage Management as a Career Study Day Lecturers Professor Lesley Ferris Professor Ferris, an Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Theatre at The Ohio State University, currently serves as the Director of OSU/ Royal Shakespeare Company Programs. Her research interests are focused on gender and performance, carnival, and the use of masks. Ferris has directed more than fifty productions in Britain, South Africa and the U.S.A, including Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal, Pearl Cleage’s A Song for Coretta, Adrienne Kennedy’s A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White. In February 2012 Lesley directed the North American premiere of Patricia Suarez’s Matchmaker. She co-curated (with Adela Ruth Tompsett, London) an exhibition entitled Midnight Robbers: The Artists of Notting Hill Carnival (City Hall, London 2007). Melissa Lee Professor Ferris’s co-tutor Melissa Lee, a Presidential Fellow completing at The Ohio State University, is completing her dissertation is on dramatic representations of the actress, linking aesthetics and characterization to larger issues of gender in performance. Her work is titled “Staging the Actress: Dramatic Character and the Performance of Female Identity.” Recent conference papers inspired by this research have been presented at Mid America Theatre Conference, American Society of Theatre Research, and International Federation of Theatre Research in Munich, Germany. Melissa holds her MA from San Francisco State University where she completed her thesis on David Henry Hwang, examining the dramaturgy of the playwright as adaptor.