Drama Faculty/Graduate Colloquium: Kathryn Syssoyeva

The Department of Drama presents the Faculty/Graduate Student Colloquium. Each quarter this Series will feature one graduate student,

one faculty member, and one special visitor.

The Schedule for Winter Quarter 2005 is as follows:

Thursday, January 27, 5pm

"The Politics of Culture: Minority Theatre in Revolutionary Russia"

A talk by Kathryn Syssoyeva

Kathryn Syssoyeva is a doctoral student in the Department of Drama. A specialist in Russian theatre, as well as actor training and curriculum development, she is currently writing her dissertation, “Beyond Stanislavsky: The Art of the Actor in the Imagistic Theatre & the Founding of the Moscow State Theatre Institute (GITIS) 1922.”

Thursday, February 24, 5pm

"Holy Industrial Tableau, Bertram! The Staging of the Grand Opera Robert le diable"

A talk by Professor Ehren Fordyce

Ehren Fordyce teaches undergraduate directing and contemporary performance in the Department of Drama, and has published articles on the Wooster Group, Reza Abdoh, and Elevator Repair Service. As a director, he has staged several works from the modern canon, such as Büchner's Woyzeck, Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera, and Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights. Forthcoming work will be on late 20th-century American experimental drama.

Thursday, March 3, 5pm

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks will have a general conversation with the drama department about her work.

Suzan-Lori Parks was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2001, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her play Topdog/Underdog. Parks has taught or worked as writer-in-residence at numerous institutions, including Yale University and the Pratt Institute for the Arts. Her play In The Blood will be performed at Stanford March 2—6. She is currently director of the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.