ASSOCIATION FOR HISPANIC
CLASSICAL THEATER, INC.
2007 AHCT SYMPOSIUM ON GOLDEN AGE THEATER

El Paso, TX

March 1-3, 2007

 

 

Wednesday, February 28th

 

9:00-12:00 AHCT Officers Meeting

Chair, Barbara Mujica

Boardroom

1:30-5:00 AHCT Board Meeting

Chair, Barbara Mujica

Boardroom

7:30 Chamizal National Memorial Theater

El Narciso en su opinión, Guillén de Castro, Agustín Moreto, Brigham Young University, Directed by Dale Pratt

 

Thursday, March 1st

Session I (Pancho Villa)

Chair: Sharon Voros

8:30 Donald D. Miller, University of St. Thomas  “Castigos y venganzas - Figuras don juanescas teatrales frente a la ‘realidad 
histórica’”

9:00 Robert Lauer, University of Oklahoma “The Staging of Tirso de Molina’s El burlador de Sevilla at the Chamizal (1986-2005)”

9:30 William R.  Blue, Pennsylvania State University  " 'Amor es mercader': Don Gil de las calzas verdes"

10:00 Meredith Lyn Jeffers, University of Colorado at Boulder  “A Marriage of Readings in Tirso de Molina’s El amor médico

Session II (Kohlberg)

Chair:  Angel Sánchez

9:00 Mindy E. Badía, Indiana University Southeast Title TBA

9:30 Don Larson, Ohio State University and Susan Paun de García, Dennison University

 “Staging Golden Age Plays in English at the Turn of the Millennium”

Session III (Pancho Villa)

Chair: Mindy Badía 

10:45 Laura L. Vidler, United States Military Academy “Why Hillary Won’t Win:  A Reconstructionist-Revisionist Production of Valor, agravio y mujer

11:15 Maryrica Lottman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte “The Landscapes of Love in Valor, agravio y mujer as directed by Hugo Medrano”

11:45 María José Domínguez-Sullivan, Arizona State University “Juego de espejos, engaños y desengaños en la escena del balcón de Valor, agravio y mujer . . . Stripping Don Juan”

Session IV (Kohlberg)

Chair: Matt Stroud, Trinity University

10:45  Sharon Voros, U.S. Naval Academy "'Nuestro gallardo rey:' Edgy Royal Presence in La firmeza en la ausencia"

11:15  Angel Sánchez, Arizona State University “El rey don Pedro como institución real y su doble imagen en el teatro de Lope”

11:45  Robert Stone, United States Naval Academy “Like Mother, Like Daughter: The House of Tudor in Calderón and Coello”

12:15-2:00 Lunch

Session V (Pancho Villa)

Chair: Rob Bayliss, University of Kansas

2:00  Isabelle Therriault, University of Massachusetts at Amherst  “El castigo sin venganza de Lope de Vega y el Auto de el-Rei Seleuco de Camões: La justicia paterna en el balance teórico de Platón”

2:30 Ysla Campbell, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez “La estrella de Sevilla: perspectiva filosófica”

Session VI (Kohlberg)

Chair: Bonnie L. Gasior, California State University, Long Beach

2:00 Terri Carney, Butler University “The King and the Law in Lope de Vega’s Amor, pleito y desafío

2:30 Beatriz Domínguez-Hermida, University of Colorado at Boulder  “Gallinato frente a Felipe III: La desautorización del Sujeto Absoluto en la obra de Andrés de Claramonte, El nuevo Rey Gallinato

Session VII (Pancho Villa)

Chair: Don Larson, Ohio State University

3:15 Lucas A. Marchante Aragón, College of William and Mary “Effeminizing the Nation:  Performing Gender and Ethnicity in Jerónimo de Cáncer’s Los Putos

3:45 Robert Bayliss, University of Kansas “Drama of a Nation in Crisis: Aesthetics, Effeminacy, and the Moral Debate of the Comedia

4:15 Yuri Porras, Texas State University “Agustín Moreto’s Entremeses with Picaresque Backgrounds”

Session VIII (Kohlberg)

Chair: Chris Weimer, University of Oklahoma

3:15 Ruth Sánchez Imizcoz, Sewanee, The University of the South “Del entremés al sainete: de Moreto a Ramón de la Cruz”

3:45 Ryan Giles, University of Chicago “Charivari and the Theatrical Legacy of the Corbacho”

4:15 Jason Yancey, University of Arizona  “Don Quijote Goes Genre Hopping: Adapting the Quijote and Shifting Stages of Readership”

Special Session:  5pm (location TBD)

Informal Reading of:

La elección de los alcaldes de Daganzo Director: Ben Gunter, Florida State University

7:30 Chamizal National Memorial

La villana de Vallecas, Tirso de Molina, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Directed by Dean Zayas
 

Friday, March 2nd

Session IX (Pancho Villa)

Chair:  Ezra Engling, Eastern Kentucky University

8:30 Bradley J. Nelson, Concordia University “Philology and Theatricality: The Performance of Literary Subjects in El alcalde de Zalamea

9:00 Matthew D. Stroud, Trinity University “Martyrdom and Pornography”

9:30  Keith Budner, University of Chicago  “Calderón’s Theatre of Modern Punishment”

Session X (Kohlberg)

Chair: Ruth Sánchez Imizcoz

8:30 Shirley Whitaker (emerita) University of North Carolina at Greensboro “A Mythological entremés by Quiñones de Benavente and a Mythological Painting by Velázquez."

9:00 Carmela V. Mattza, University of Chicago “‘¿Y qué quiere el señor rebozadito en casa?’  Pintura y engaño en el ‘Entremés del viejo celoso’”

Session XI (Angus)

8:30-10:00

David Pasto, Oklahoma City University  “Valor, Outrage, and Woman at Oklahoma City University”

Respondents:

Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University

Amy Williamsen, University of Arizona

Kerry Wilks, Wichita State University

Session XII  (Pancho Villa)

Plenary Session: 10:15-12:00

Chair: Barbara Mujica, President AHCT

Dawn L. Smith, Trent University (emerita) “Changing Perspectives on Tirso de Molina”

Frederick De Armas, University of Chicago "Ekphrasis 
Onstage: Lope de Vega and Titian"

Teresa S. Soufas, Tulane University “Just Space: Recourse in Angela de Azevedo's Comedias"

12:00-1:30 Lunch

Session XIII (Pancho Villa)

Chair: Kerry Wilks, Wichita State University

1:30 Christopher Weimer, Oklahoma State University “Tiresias Reborn: A Goddess’s Priest and a King’s Favorite in Calderón’s La hija del aire

2:00 Jonathan Ellis, Oklahoma State University “The Figure of Circe and the Power of Knowledge: Competing Philosophies in Calderón’s El mayor encanto, el amor

2:30 Anita Damjanovic, University of Chicago “El Clarín apocalíptico”

Session XIV (Kohlberg)

Chair: Maryrica Lottman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

1:30  Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State University “A Few Impertinent Questions About Performance and the Comedia

2:00  Eric J. Kartchner, Colorado State University-Pueblo “The Art of Adaptation: La dama boba in Nashville”

2:30  Christopher D. Gascón, State University of New York College at Cortland “Transition as Movement, Image, and Metaphor in Teatro del Valle’s El astrólogo fingido (2006)” 

Session XV (Angus)

Chair: TBA

3:15 Veronika Ryjik, Franklin and Marshall College “La reina divina: Isabel la Católica y la comunidad imaginada en el drama histórico de Lope de Vega El cerco de Santa Fe

3:45 Jannine Montauban, University of Montana “’Descuidóse la poeta; ustedes se lo perdonen’: el gracioso en las comedias de Ana Caro”

4:15 Luzmila Camacho Platero, Utica Collage of Syracuse University “Las famosas asturianas: celebración de la mujer (varonil) y emasculación del hombre (cristiano)”

Session XVI (Kohlberg)

Chair: TBA

3:15 Patricia Kenworthy,  Vassar College (emerita) “Trading Spaces:  Fictional Location and the ‘Reversible’ Corral Stage”

3:45 Octavio Moreno Ramírez, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México “Un instante en el teatro del Siglo de Oro español: Miguel de Cervantes y Lope de Vega”

4:15 Anthony J. Grubbs, Michigan State University “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes: Comparing an Andalusian and a Menorcan Version of the Martyrdom of Saint Christopher”

Session XVII (Angus)

Chair: Donald T. Dietz, AHCT president emeritus

3:15 Brent W. Devos, University of Lethbridge “Polimetría y estructura dramática en El Tuzaní de la Alpujarra de Pedro Calderón de la Barca”

3:45 John Slater, University of Colorado, Boulder “Performing Imperceptibility: Towards a Modal Definition of Calderón’s Allegory”

4:15 Patricia Bentivegna, Saint Francis University (emerita) “Los estrenos de 1907: Calderón un cuarto de milenio después”

Special Session:  5pm (location TBD)

Informal Reading of:

El juez de los divorcios.  Directed by Paco Ramírez, University of California, Santa Cruz

7:30 Chamizal National Memorial

La celosa de sí misma, Tirso de Molina. Teatro de Bellas Artes, Mexico, DF. Directed by Ignacio Escárcega.

Saturday, March 3rd

8:30-9:30 (Pancho Villa)

Association for Hispanic Classical Theater general meeting

Chair: Barbara Mujica, President, AHCT

Session XVIII (Pancho Villa)

Chair: TBA

9:45 David Gómez-Torres, University of Wisconsin, Osh Kosh “Religión y nacionalismo en la Comedia.”

10:15 Matthew J. Dean, Dominican University  “Staging the Three Hametes: From Tragicomedy to Burlesque”

10:45 Jonathan William Wade, Vanderbilt University  “Convention and Dissension: Spanish in Portuguese Theater from Gil Vicente to Simão Machado”

Session XIX (Kohlberg)

Chair: TBA

9:45 Kathleen Costales, University of Dayton “ SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Translating Fuente Ovejuna in the Borderlands”

10:15 Elena García Martín, University of Utah “El Alcalde in Zalamea by Zalamea: A Popular Rendering of the Aurean Tradition”

10:45 Ben Gunter, Florida State University “Translating Locale: Replaying Cervantes' ‘Elección’ in 21st-Century Florida”

Session XX (Pancho Villa)

11:30-12:30 Donald T. Dietz Keynote Address

Chair: Barbara Mujica, President, AHCT

Speaker: Karen Berman, Georgetown University, Artistic Director of Washington Women in Theatre

"Translations, Transgressions and Reinterpretations: 21st Century Questions of Restaging Zayas"

12:45-1:45 AHCT Luncheon (Ballroom D)

7:30 Chamizal National Memorial

Risas aqui y después, ¡Ganancia!  Grupo la Hormiga, Lerma, Spain, Directed by Ricardo Revilla