Boucicault 2020: Circuits of Skill Research Network – Online Events

Boucicault 2020: Circuits of Skill Research Network led by Aoife Monks and Nicholas Daly invites you to a series of online workshops and events to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Boucicault’s birth (delayed by Covid 19).

These events will investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial values and performance skill, asking how one relates to the other in the theatre by considering the legacies of Boucicault’s theatre practice now.

FRIDAY 25TH FEBRUARY 2022

10am-12.30pm (GMT) Online

Stage-Irishness: A Public Inquiry

This inquiry investigates the legacies of Stage Irishness, and whether it should finally be banished from the Irish stage once and for all. Taking evidence from ‘witnesses’ such as historians, critics and performers, this inquiry’s appointed jury will try to come to some conclusions, making recommendations for the casting and performing – or not – of Stage-Irish roles in the future. Jury and Witnesses include:

Nicholas Daly, Tanya Dean, Kate Ferris, Rosaleen McDonagh, Lionel Pilkington, Jo Hofer-Robinson, Brian Singleton, Kirsten Smith. Click here, to book your place and for further information.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stage-irishness-a-public-inquiry-tickets-260192551927

2.30-4pm (GMT) Online

Museum of Celebrity and Virtuosity Workshop Outline

Join Aoife Monks, Nicholas Daly, Tracy Davis, Matthew Knight, Simon O’Connor, Sarah Meer, Jo Hofer-Robinson and Marlis Schweitzer to explore the relationship between celebrity and virtuosic performance onstage, and the material cultures that emerge from it. Click here, to book your place and for further information.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/museum-of-celebrity-and-virtuosity-workshop-tickets-262276795957

5-6.30pm (GMT) Online

Dion Boucicault: Legacies of a Theatre Producer

Join Jen Coppinger, Head of Producing at the Abbey Theatre Dublin, Alexandra Araujo Alvarez, Peoples Palace Projects, London and Róise Goan, Artistic Director, Artsadmin, London to explore the residues of Boucicault’s approaches to producing, asking ‘what would Boucicault do?’ in the face of the challenges facing theatre producers across the world today. Click here, to book your place and for further information.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dion-boucicault-legacies-of-a-theatre-producer-tickets-262278280397

Boucicault 2020: Circuits of Skill Research Network is a research project exploring what the nineteenth-century stage has to teach us about the sort of art we get when the entrepreneurialism of artists is emphasised, as it is today. 

This project is supported by:

Arts & Humanities Research Council

Queen Mary University of London

University College Dublin

Rutgers University New Jersey

Museum of Literature Ireland