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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 22nd Annual William Inge Theatre
Festival and Conference
The William Inge Theatre Festival is in its
third decade of honoring major living playwrights through a wide
range of performances, readings, seminars, workshops, lectures,
panel discussions and historical activities. For four days each
year, the small city of Independence, Kansas, becomes the
theatrical center of the universe with visits from the greatest
playwrights, directors, actors and other theatre practitioners,
all met to honor a major playwright in a playwright’s town.
Additional awards to a “New Voices” Playwright and a Kansas
Citizen of the Arts are also presented. Next year’s festival will
be held April 9-12, 2003.
We are pleased to announce that the recipient
of the 2003 William Inge Distinguished Achievement in the
American Theatre Award is Romulus Linney.
Past recipients are: Jerome Lawrence, William
Gibson, Robert Anderson, John Patrick, Garson Kanin, Sidney
Kingsley, Robert E. Lee, Horton Foote, Betty Comden and Adolph
Green, Edward Albee, Peter Shaffer, Wendy Wasserstein, Terrence
McNally, Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Neil Simon, Stephen
Sondheim, John Guare, A.R. Gurney, Lanford Wilson and John Kander
and Fred Ebb.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers, designed for
a 15 minute oral presentation, are invited on the films and plays
of William Inge, on the works of Romulus Linney, or on Inge or
Linney in conjunction with other playwrights. Preference will be
given to papers dealing with William Inge. Papers selected for
presentation at the conference will be deposited in the William
Inge Collection at Independence Community College, the major
repository of Inge manuscripts, letters, and memorabilia.
Persons interested
in submitting a paper, should submit a copy (maximum of twenty
minutes reading time and designed for oral presentation to a
general audience) or a substantial abstract, with title, by
February 1, 2003, to:
Peter Ellenstein,
Artistic Director
The William Inge
Theatre Festival
PO Box 708
Independence, KS
67301
(800) 842-6063
ext.4275
For more information
on the festival, please visit our website:
www.ingefestival.org
The
21st Annual
William Inge Theatre Festival and
Conference
We are pleased to announce that the
recipients of the 2002 William Inge Distinguished Achievement in
the American Theatre Award are
John Kander and Fred Ebb.
SCHOLARS CONFERENCE
Friday, April 19th 2002 l
1:45 to 5 p.m. l
Lecture Hall, Academic Bldg., ICC
Introduction by Conference Chair, Dr.
Jackson Bryer
The Inge Papers
Paper #1 - "Gendermaking the Fifties:
Stereotypes, Iconoclasm, O'Neill,
Williams and Inge"
Jeff Johnson, Brevard Community
College
Paper #2 - "A Tribute to Eileen
Heckart and Her Work in Inge's PICNIC and DARK
AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS"
Richard A. Davison, University of
Delaware
Paper #3 - "William Inge as a
Novelist"
Ralph Voss, University of Alabama
15 minute break
The Kander and Ebb Papers
Paper #4 - "Kander and Ebb,
CABARET the Concept Musical,
And Political Satire in Musical
Theatre"
Alisa Roost, Winthrop University
Paper #5 - "From Headlines to Chorus
Lines:
The Fifty-Year Dramatic Journey to
Kander and Ebb's CHICAGO"
Gary Konas, University of Wisconsin
Paper #6 - "Honor in the Borrowing:
The Many Levels of Pastiche in
CHICAGO: A MUSICAL VAUDEVILLE"
David Rogers, Longview Community
College
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