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<strong>Subject:</strong> [Art-faculty] FW: Richard Schechner at FSU: September 18 - 22, 2023<br>
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I am sending you an invitation to the events with Richard Schechner, who will be our resident guest for the week of Sept 18-22. Since his work is interdisciplinary and potentially significant to many of us in the College, I am extending this invitation to the
faculty and grad students in Art. Please see the information below.</p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(34, 42, 53);">5 EVENTS IN 5 DAYS:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(34, 42, 53);">SEPTEMBER 18 – 22</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">DON’T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO SPEND YOUR WEEK WITH RICHARD SCHECHNER</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);"></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Author (Books include:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Environmental
Theater, Performance Theory, Between Theater and Anthropology, The End of Humanism, The Future of Ritual, Performed Imaginaries, Performance Studies: An Introduction, Schechner Plays</i>)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">His books and essays have been translated into more than 20 languages. He is the general editor of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Enactments Book Series</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for Seagull
Books and the Worlds of Performance Book Series for Routledge. He was a producing director of the Free Southern Theater and the founding artistic director of The Performance Group and East Coast Artists. His theatre productions include <i>Dionysus in 69</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(after
Euripides’ <i>The Bacchae</i>), Sam Shephard’s <i>The Tooth of Crime</i>, Bertolt Brecht’s<i> Mother Courage and Her Children</i>, August Wilson’s<i> Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</i>, Anton Chekhov’s <i>Three Sisters</i> and <i>Cherry Orchard</i>, Shakespeare’s <i>Hamlet</i>, Seneca’s <i>Oedipus</i>, <i>Swimming
to Spalding</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>YokastaS</i>, and <i>Imagining O</i>. He has directed, led workshops, taught, and lectured in every continent except Antarctica. During the time of COVID, Schechner has led and participated
in many webinars. His honors include numerous fellowships, awards, and three honorary doctorates. In 2023, Schechner was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Schechner on Dionysus in ’69 (film and talk back)</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);"></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Screening of one of the emblematic productions of American avant-garde theatre, <i>Dionysus in 69</i>, Richard Schechner’s most famous performance, with a short introduction and an after-screening discussion. Film length: 90 minutes</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Schechner on His Directing Career</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);"></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Richard Schechner has directed plays with leading professional actors in the United States, Taiwan, China, India, and the Republic of South Africa. His productions have won major awards such as the BITEF (Belgrade International
Experimental Theatre Festival) Prize, two OBIEs (New York Off Broadway prize), and the Mondello Prize (Italy). Schechner is the founding director of The Performance Group and East Coast Artists. His directing — and his book <i>Environmental Theater</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>— have
pioneered immersive theatre, site-specific performances, and audience participation. He has both radically reinterpreted and deconstructed canonical texts and worked closely with performers on devising productions worldwide.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Schechner’s Short History of Stage Directing</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);"></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Modern Euro-American directing started with the practice of the Saxe-Meiningen theatre company (1866-1890), sponsored by its reigning duke, George II, whose operative stage manager, Ludwig Chronegk, was the first European director
in the modern sense. Similar activities occurred at about the same time in Iran, but there was no link between the two practices. This lecture focuses on Europe and the USA. Schechner will discuss/analyze some of the ideas and practices of Konstantin Stanislavsky,
Gordon Craig, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bertolt Brecht-Erwin Piscator, Peter Brook, Antonin Artaud, The Living Theatre, Jerzy Grotowski, Tadeusz Kantor, Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, The Builders Association, Elevator Repair Service, Lee Breuer-Mabou Mines,
Anne Bogart, and Rachel Chavkin. He will outline key themes and their exemplars: realism-naturalism, expressionism-bio-mechanics, visual theatre, movement theatre, “poor theatre”, environmental theatre, and experimental theatre on Broadway. The lecture will
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thursday, September 21, 5:00 – 6:30 pm</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jerzy Grotowski was one of the formative theatre artists and thinkers of the 20th century, in the line of Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Antonin Artaud, and Juliusz Osterwa. Richard Schechner corresponded with Grotowski
in 1963 and met him in person in 1966. In 1967, Schechner participated in the first USA workshop led by Grotowski and his lead actor at that time, Ryszard Cieslak. Schechner remained one of Grotowski’s friends and supporters, particularly during the Laboratory
Theatre period. As editor of TDR, Schechner published several important articles by and about Grotowski. Schechner is co-editor (with Lisa Wolford Wylam) of The Grotowski Sourcebook (1997). This event will take the form of a dialogue between Richard Schechner
and Kris Salata. The event will include the screening of fragments of rarely seen video material as well as a Q&A with the audience.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">Schechner on The Ramlila of Ramnagar, India: Outdoor Environmental Theatre</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(47, 84, 150);"></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Each September and October for 30 or 31 days in Ramnagar, India (across the Ganges River from Varanasi), local people under the guidance of the Maharaja of Banaras enact in detail the life of Rama, Vishnu’s seventh avatar. Each
day, they stage another episode of Rama’s life — his birth, training, marriage, exile into the forest with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana, the kidnapping of Sita by the 10-headed demon king Ravana, the war against Ravana and his demon hordes to recover
Sita, Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana’s triumphant return home to Ayodhya where Rama, after re-uniting with his other brothers, Bharata and Shatrughna, is coronated king of Kosala. Directed by vyases, priest-theatre directors, Ramlila is staged throughout Ramnagar
in the streets, fields, in specially built theatrical environments, and inside the palace of the Maharaja.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thousands of spectators believe that Rama, Sita, and Rama’s brothers are gods incarnate, on earth for this month to enact their great drama. Worshipping these gods is part of the performance. Other figures – divine, demonic, human,
and animal – perform their roles in the story of Rama. When Sita is seized by Ravana, Rama leads an army of monkeys and bears — including Hanuman, the devoted monkey warrior — across the sea from India to Lanka where they slay Ravana and rescue Sita. Attending
each performance, and overseeing the whole event from atop his royal elephant is the Maharaja of Banaras. Each day crowds ranging from 2,000 to 75,000 come to worship, celebrate, and enjoy theatre. Richard Schechner has studied the Ramlila of Ramnagar since
1976. He is the author of many articles about Ramlila and has taken more than 8,000 photographs and many hours of film, the world’s largest archive of this performance. </span></p>
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