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Many of the speakers from our global Segal Talks series – some of the most respected and veritable theatre makers in the world – rejoin us to talk about the book projects they worked on during the pandemic! We are sharing sample chapters from these new works HERE for you to peruse, before our participating authors converse with Segal Center Director Frank Hentschker.
We’re glad to end the final months of 2021 with this brilliant series, in collaboration with and hosted on www.howlround.com!
SEGAL BOOK TALKS – FALL 2021
NOVEMBER
Mon Nov 22, 12:00 noon Bonnie Marranca Book Talk: Timelines: Writings and Conversations; US
In her latest book, the NY arts critic turns to far-ranging subjects that include the catastrophic imagination, landscape and writing, performance drawing, cultural history, as well as issues of emotion, beauty, and the spiritual in art.
Mon Nov 29, 12:00 noon Theresa Krystyna Smalec Book Talk: Ron Vawter’s Life in Performance; US
Smalec examines Ron Vawter’s unique contributions to New York’s downtown theater scene, first with the Performance Group and later as a founding member of the Wooster Group—while also covering his solo projects. With guests John Jesurun and Marianne Weems.
DECEMBER
Wed Dec 1, 12:00 noon Alexis Greene & Emily Mann Book Talk: EMILY MANN: Rebel Artist of the American Theater; US
The story of a pioneering woman and theater artist who defied the American theater’s sexism, a traumatic assault, and illness to create unique documentary plays and to lead the McCarter Theatre Center, for thirty seasons, to a place of national recognition.
Mon Dec 6, 12:00 noon Carey Perloff Book Talk: Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View; US
An account of Perloff’s lifelong engagement with Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, two leading British playwrights of our time–“exploring their Central European Jewish heritage and providing a set of tools for approaching their work in a performance environment and for unlocking the mysteries of their plays for audiences.
Wed Dec 8, 12:00 noon Anne Cattaneo Book Talk: The Art of Dramaturgy; US
Using detailed stories from her work, Cattaneo traces the field from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present, and chronicles the multitude and variety of tasks a dramaturg undertakes before, during, and after a production is brought to the stage.
Mon Dec 13, 1:00 PM Anne Bogart Book Talk: The Art of Resonance; US
What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one’s life and one’s art? This latest book of essays from theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavor, with a focus on the performing arts.
Wed Dec 15, 12:00 noon Avra Sidiropoulou & Frank Raddatz Book Talk: Staging 21st Century Tragedies. Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis; Greece & Germany
Editor Sidiropoulou and 20 fellow writers and artists examine ways in which the tragedies of our century are being negotiated on international stages. The globally reemerging practice of politically engaged art produces a “Theatre of Crisis,” a new form of contemporary tragedy. With contributor Frank Raddatz.
Mon Dec 20, 12:00 noon Eiko Otake Book Talk: A Body in Fukushima: Japan and US
Eiko, a Japanese New York movement-based interdisciplinary artist, shares a collection of insightful essays about the devastated Fukushima landscape after the meltdown of reactors at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan—with dance photography by William Johnston.
ABOUT THE SEGAL TALKS
The Segal Theatre Center’s online conversation series SEGAL TALKS was created in March of 2020 after the abrupt closing of the Graduate Center for any kind of public activities due to Corona and the cancellation of the entire spring season. The SEGAL TALKS during The Time of Corona offered conversations on theatre, performance and art during the pandemic featuring with more than 200 theater artists from over 50 countries. New York, US, and international theatre artists, curators, writers, and academics talked daily during the week for one hour with Segal Center’s director, Frank Hentschker, about life and art in the Time of Corona and speak about challenges, sorrows, and hopes for the new Weltzustand— the State of the World. In the summer of 2021 Segal Talks continued to focus on Theatre, Performance and The Political, the Segal Center’s 2023 New York International Festival of the Arts Project and the 2022 Center’s Public Park Project. During the pandemic The Segal Center was for a long period globally the only theatre institution creating new, original, daily content for the global field of theater and performance five days a week. Currently the Center is preparing the 4th edition of the Segal Center’s global Film Festival on Theatre and Performance.
SEGAL TALKS are free, open access, without ads will be live-streamed in English from Wednesday to Friday on HowlRound Theatre Commons and on the Segal Center Facebook. This program is presented in collaboration with HowlRound Theatre Commons, based at Emerson College. All SEGAL TALKS are archived on HowlRound, and on the Segal Center YouTube Channel.
Originally founded in 1979 as the Center for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (CASTA), The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center was renamed in March of 1999 to recognize Martin E. Segal, one of New York City’s outstanding leaders of the arts. The Segal Center curates over thirty events throughout the Spring and Fall academic seasons, all free and open to the public. Dedicated to bridging the gap between the professional and academic theatre communities, the Segal Center presents readings, performance, lectures, and artists and academics in conversation. In addition, the Segal Center presents three annual festivals (PRELUDE, PEN World Voices: International Pay Festival, and The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance) and publishes and maintains three open access online journals (Arab Stages, European Stages, and The Journal of American Drama and Theatre). The Segal Center also publishes many volumes of plays in translation and is the leading publisher of plays from the Arab world. The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (MESTC) is a vital component of the Theatre Program’s academic culture and creating in close collaboration a research nexus, focusing on dramaturgy, new media, and global theatre. The Segal Center provides an intimate platform where both artists and theatre professionals can actively participate with audiences to advance awareness and appreciation. www.TheSegalCenter.org
THE SEGAL TEAM
Executive Director: Frank Hentschker
Associate Producers: Andie Lerner & Tanvi Shah
THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, of which the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is an integral part, is the doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York (CUNY). An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs, as well as a number of master’s programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world’s leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to twenty-eight interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, The Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City’s intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. www.gc.cuny.edu.
HowlRound Theatre Commons at www.HowlRound.com is a free and open platform for theatre makers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners. HowlRound envisions a theatre field where resources and power are shared equitably in all directions, contributing to a more just and sustainable world. HowlRound was founded on an organizing principle in the “commons”—a social structure that invites open participation around shared values. HowlRound is a knowledge commons that encourages freely sharing intellectual and artistic resources and expertise. It is our strong belief that the power of live theatre connects us across difference, puts us in proximity of one another, and strengthens our tether to our commonalities. HowlRound is based at Emerson College, Boston. http://www.howlround.com
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Fall 2021 Segal Book Talk Series: Bogart, Cattaneo, Eiko, Greene, Mann, Marranca, Perloff, Raddatz, Sidiropoulou, Smalec
« Back to EventsJoin us for a series of book conversations with theatre makers who wrote and published work during the time of Corona.
After finishing our Prelude 2021 Festival: Start Making Sense!, we are proud to announce our Fall 2021 Segal Book Talks series!
Many of the speakers from our global Segal Talks series – some of the most respected and veritable theatre makers in the world – rejoin us to talk about the book projects they worked on during the pandemic! We are sharing sample chapters from these new works HERE for you to peruse, before our participating authors converse with Segal Center Director Frank Hentschker.
We’re glad to end the final months of 2021 with this brilliant series, in collaboration with and hosted on www.howlround.com!
SEGAL BOOK TALKS – FALL 2021
NOVEMBER
Mon Nov 22, 12:00 noon
Bonnie Marranca
Book Talk: Timelines: Writings and Conversations; US
In her latest book, the NY arts critic turns to far-ranging subjects that include the catastrophic imagination, landscape and writing, performance drawing, cultural history, as well as issues of emotion, beauty, and the spiritual in art.
Mon Nov 29, 12:00 noon
Theresa Krystyna Smalec
Book Talk: Ron Vawter’s Life in Performance; US
Smalec examines Ron Vawter’s unique contributions to New York’s downtown theater scene, first with the Performance Group and later as a founding member of the Wooster Group—while also covering his solo projects. With guests John Jesurun and Marianne Weems.
DECEMBER
Wed Dec 1, 12:00 noon
Alexis Greene & Emily Mann
Book Talk: EMILY MANN: Rebel Artist of the American Theater; US
The story of a pioneering woman and theater artist who defied the American theater’s sexism, a traumatic assault, and illness to create unique documentary plays and to lead the McCarter Theatre Center, for thirty seasons, to a place of national recognition.
Mon Dec 6, 12:00 noon
Carey Perloff
Book Talk: Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View; US
An account of Perloff’s lifelong engagement with Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, two leading British playwrights of our time–“exploring their Central European Jewish heritage and providing a set of tools for approaching their work in a performance environment and for unlocking the mysteries of their plays for audiences.
Wed Dec 8, 12:00 noon
Anne Cattaneo
Book Talk: The Art of Dramaturgy; US
Using detailed stories from her work, Cattaneo traces the field from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present, and chronicles the multitude and variety of tasks a dramaturg undertakes before, during, and after a production is brought to the stage.
Mon Dec 13, 1:00 PM
Anne Bogart
Book Talk: The Art of Resonance; US
What is artistic resonance and how can it be linked to one’s life and one’s art? This latest book of essays from theatre director Anne Bogart, considers the creation of resonance in the artistic endeavor, with a focus on the performing arts.
Wed Dec 15, 12:00 noon
Avra Sidiropoulou & Frank Raddatz
Book Talk: Staging 21st Century Tragedies. Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis; Greece & Germany
Editor Sidiropoulou and 20 fellow writers and artists examine ways in which the tragedies of our century are being negotiated on international stages. The globally reemerging practice of politically engaged art produces a “Theatre of Crisis,” a new form of contemporary tragedy. With contributor Frank Raddatz.
Mon Dec 20, 12:00 noon
Eiko Otake
Book Talk: A Body in Fukushima: Japan and US
Eiko, a Japanese New York movement-based interdisciplinary artist, shares a collection of insightful essays about the devastated Fukushima landscape after the meltdown of reactors at the Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan—with dance photography by William Johnston.
ABOUT THE SEGAL TALKS
SEGAL TALKS are free, open access, without ads will be live-streamed in English from Wednesday to Friday on HowlRound Theatre Commons and on the Segal Center Facebook. This program is presented in collaboration with HowlRound Theatre Commons, based at Emerson College. All SEGAL TALKS are archived on HowlRound, and on the Segal Center YouTube Channel.
CONTACT
ABOUT THE MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATRE CENTER
THE SEGAL TEAM
THE GRADUATE CENTER, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, of which the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center is an integral part, is the doctorate-granting institution of The City University of New York (CUNY). An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs, as well as a number of master’s programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world’s leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to twenty-eight interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, The Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City’s intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. www.gc.cuny.edu.
HowlRound Theatre Commons at www.HowlRound.com is a free and open platform for theatre makers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners. HowlRound envisions a theatre field where resources and power are shared equitably in all directions, contributing to a more just and sustainable world. HowlRound was founded on an organizing principle in the “commons”—a social structure that invites open participation around shared values. HowlRound is a knowledge commons that encourages freely sharing intellectual and artistic resources and expertise. It is our strong belief that the power of live theatre connects us across difference, puts us in proximity of one another, and strengthens our tether to our commonalities. HowlRound is based at Emerson College, Boston. http://www.howlround.com