Programme

Friday 8th November

16.00 Registration opens (Theatre foyer)
17.00 Stephen Parker book launch (venue)
18.30 Introduction: Jan Hancil, Paul Fryer, Doubravka Svobodová, Aneta Ruttenbacherová
19.00 Keynote 1: Prof. Stephen Parker (DISK Theatre) Brecht: Satirist
20.15 Presentation: Thomas Ostermeier (DISK Theatre)
Followed by Drinks Reception
Finish 22.00

Saturday 9th November

09.00 Registration open (Theatre foyer)
09.30 Keynote 2: Prof Jean-Louis Besson (DISK Theatre): A rascal in the Soviet zone: Brecht in East Berlin
10.30 Break

Haller Hall	Řetízek	Studio K222
11.00 Papers session 1 Michaela Antoniou The Greek Panorama: Brechtian Acting and Writing techniques in Post-Dictatorship Athens. Jitka Goriaux Pelechova Antoine Vitez and Brecht’s Legacy. Martina Musilova BB – repeatedly resurgent impulses for Czech theatre acting.	11.00 Panel #1 Marc Silberman, Sara Freeman, Kristopher Imbrigotta Brecht Learning and Unlearning Stanislavsky.	11.00 Workshop 1 Anna Seymour "Mere catastrophe is a bad teacher."
12.30 Jan Císař Czech drama theatre between Stanislavsky and Brecht in the 1950s
13.15 Lunch break	13.15 Lunch break	13.15 Lunch break
14.30 Papers session 2	14.30 Papers session 3	14.30 Workshop 2
Anja Hartl Performing Brecht in 21st-Century Britain: Experimental Dialectics. Nesta Jones Brecht and Britain	Matt Saltzberg Theories of Labour: Physically Scoring Brecht’s Mother Courage with Stanislavsky and Viewpoints. Bella Merlin Bert or Kostya – Does it Matter? Thoughts from inside the acting process. Anja Klöck The Brecht-Stanislavsky Controversy and actor training in Germany after 1945.	Bill Gelber Not Stanislavsky But Brecht: A workshop comparison of two Masters.
16.00 Papers session 4 Michal Hába Brecht and the Power of Imagination. Anne Fliotsos Verfremdund 2.0: An International Telepresence Workshop on Brecht’s Life of Galileo. Pablo Santana From Theater to Cinema: Brecht and his political influence in the construction of a revolutionary art.	16.00 Papers session 5 Laura Bradley Staging Blindness and Insight: Brecht's 'Mother Courage and Her Children' in East Berlin. Jan Motal Why Empathy Matters: A political and Ecological critique of Brecht’s rationality. Stephane Poliakov Brecht reads Stanislavsky
17:30 Break	17:30 Break	17:30 Break
18.00 Papers session 6 Jef Hall-Flavin Incongruity and the Tragicomic: Gestus in the plays of Tennessee Williams. Vladimir Mirodan Whose Haltung? Cognitive challenges to Brecht;s ideas on personality and character. Rikard Hoogland Brecht after the Postdramatic turn.	18.00 Papers session 7 Dr Prateek Aboriginalising Mother Courage: on the theatre of Wesley Enoch in Australia. Lucia Romano It is useless to refrain the wave: the need for Brecht and Stanislavski in the hybridity of the epic theatrical forms of the Brazilian scene.	18.00 Workshop 4 Ann Shanahan Staging Contemporary Street Scenes: An Active Workshop in Applying Bertolt Brecht's Theories of Acting for 21st Century Performances.
19:30 Finish
20.00 Performance of Szechwan

Sunday 10th November

Haller Hall
09.30 Keynote 3: Prof. David Barnett: Brecht in Practice: Some Critical Reflections on Staging Drama Dialectically.

Haller Hall	Řetízek	Studio K222
10.30 Papers session 8 Clarissa Campbello Analysis of the epic scenic design in the play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Francesco Sani Brecht and the Anthropocene. Christina Papagiannouli InstaStan – FaceBook – Brecht+: A performer training methodology for the Age of the Internet.		10.30 Panel # 2 Alice Koubova, Kent Sjostrom, Anders Carlsson Talking Contradictions: Buying Brass Method Re-examined.
12.00 Panel # 3 Veronika Darian, John Hanse, Michael Wehren Class matters: reattriculating class and Classism with and against Brecht.		12.00 Workshop: David Zoob Performing contradiction as political commentary in Chekhov and Miller.
13:00 Break	13:00 Break	13:00 Break
13.30 Panel and Forum Staging Socially Relevant Theatre Today
14.30 Finish