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CALL FOR PAPERS
The
26th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference,
April 25-28, 2007
The
William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference 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, who all meet 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
25-28, 2007.
We
are pleased to announce that for the 26th Annual
Festival we are honoring the work of Jerry Bock and Sheldon
Harnick, the composer/lyricist team best known for “Fiddler
on the Roof,” “Fiorello!,” and “She Loves Me.”
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, John
Kander and Fred Ebb, Romulus Linney, Arthur Laurents, and
Tina Howe.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers,
designed for a 15 minute oral presentation, are invited on
the films and plays of William Inge, or on the works of
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. 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, 2007, to:
Peter Ellenstein, Artistic Director
The William Inge Center of the Arts
PO Box 708
Independence, KS 67301
(800) 842-6063 ext.5490
Please
forward this message to anyone or any list you believe may
be interested.
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Last year's Scholars' Conference at the 25th
William Inge Theatre Festival took place Friday and Saturday April 28 & 29,
2006 .
Both Sessions will be moderated by
Conference Chair, Jackson Bryer.
SESSION I
1. "Kushner, Inge and 'Little Sheba': Strange Bedfellows,"
Jeff Johnson, Brevard
Community College
2. "This Ain't Your Mama's Picnic: Restoring the Sexual
Content in William Inge's "PICNIC," Deena Conley, Drake
University
3. "Revealing Playwrights: Conversations with Inge Award
Honorees," Carol
Rosen, SUNY, Stony Brook
4. "The Profusion of Popular Culture Satiric Motifs in
Lawrence and Lee's
INHERIT THE WIND," Colby H. Kullman, University of
Mississippi
SESSION II
1. "'We'll Catch Up Some Other Time': The Forgotten
Musicals of Comden and
Green," Gary Konas, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
2. "August Wilson's Homage to Arthur Miller," Anthony
Giffone, Farmingdale
State University of New York
3. "'Moments' That Fade, Love That Abides in Tina Howe's
PAINTING
CHURCHES," Jeffrey Loomis, Northwest Missouri State
University
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