2011 SETC Theatre Symposium
will be held at
Furman University, Greenville, SC, April 15-17

 

SETC Theatre Symposium Volume 20
Gods and Groundlings: Historical Theatrical Audiences

Before cell phones or internet marketing or even electrical lighting, how did theatre audiences function in various periods and cultures? How did they behave? What did they expect? What was expected of them? Who came and who stayed home-and why? The 2011 Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Theatre Symposium will focus on audience reception, expectations and obligations, behaviors, "contracts" with performers, etc. in early- and pre-20th-Century cultures.

The Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Susan Bennett, of the University of Calgary, author of Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception.  Dr. Bennett will respond to the presentations as well as discuss her current work.

All are invited to attend the conference at Furman University, Greenville, SC, April 15-17.  The cost for registration until March 15 is $110.  This includes meals on Friday and Saturday nights.  Later registration (including onsite registration) is $135.  When you register, please include your name (as you’d like it to appear on your nametag), any institutional affiliation, whether or not you require vegetarian meals (must be requested in advance), and complete contact information (mailing and email addresses, phone numbers).  Mail your check (made out to SETC) and this information to:

E. Bert Wallace
Editor, Theatre Symposium
Campbell University
PO Box 70
Buies Creek, NC 25706

Questions?

E. Bert Wallace
Editor, Theatre Symposium
College of Arts & Sciences, Theatre Arts
Campbell University
Rm 108 Fine Arts Building
Buies Creek, NC 25706

wallacebert@campbell.edu or (910) 814-4328

Missed an issue, or want to buy additional copies? Books may be purchased directly from the University of Alabama Press via their website.

A History of Theatre Symposium Journals:

SETC Theatre Symposium Past Issues
Volume	Title
1	Commedia dell'Arte Performance
2	Theatre in the Antebellum South
3	Voice of the Dramaturg
4	The Reemergence of the Theatre Building in the Renaissance
5	Drama as Rhetoric/Rhetoric as Drama
6	Crosscurrents in the Drama: East and West
7	Theatre and Violence
8	Theatre at the Margins: The Political, the Popular, the Personal, the Profane
9	Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century
10	Representations of Gender on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage
11	Constructions of Race in Southern Theatre: From Federalism to the Federal Theatre Project
12	Elizabethan Performances in North American Spaces
13	Theatre in Transit: Tours of the South
14	Theatre, War and Propaganda
15	Theatre and the Moral Order
16	Comedy Tonight!
17	Outdoor Drama
18	The Prop's the Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered
19	Theatre and Film