{"id":614,"date":"2014-10-03T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=614"},"modified":"2014-10-13T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T10:30:08","slug":"well-ive-been-sitting-down-a-lot-observations-of-rehearsing-adapting-and-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2014\/10\/03\/well-ive-been-sitting-down-a-lot-observations-of-rehearsing-adapting-and-performing\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Well, I&#8217;ve been sitting down a lot&#8230;&#8217;: Observations of rehearsing, adapting and performing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 16<sup>th<\/sup> October, 5pm \u2013 7pm, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3<br \/>\nETRN Guest Lecture<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Adam Ledger, University of Birmingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Well, I&#8217;ve been sitting down a lot&#8230;&#8217;:<br \/>\nObservations of rehearsing, adapting and performing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patrice Pavis has recently called the contemporary director \u2018a postmodern neo-subject\u2019, a \u2018limited company \u2026 whose powers are lost and dispersed\u2019 (Pavis 2013, 279).\u00a0 Set against this is the notion of auteur. Both of these positions tend to view the artist and\/or final production as representative of directing. A complicating factor is that of the current interest in adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>In order to move away from the fixity of definition around directors or their identification within a typology of work, I am interested to reflect on observation of rehearsal, particularly that of Katie Mitchell and Ivo van Hove. If rehearsal is a directorial <em>mise en jeu<\/em>, it must negotiate a set of collaborators, and offers a way to begin to consider the shifting performance aesthetics of each director.<\/p>\n<p>My view from the seat \u2013 either (or both) in rehearsal and in the auditorium &#8211; includes two of van Hove\u2019s productions, <em>Scenes from a Marriage<\/em> (2005; Barbican Centre, 2013) and TA\u2019s latest production, an adaptation of the novel <em>Fountainhead<\/em> (Ayn Rand). I also include Mitchell\u2019s version of Peter Handke\u2019s <em>A Sorrow Beyond Dreams<\/em> for the Burgtheater, Vienna (2014), and of Charlotte Perkins Gillman\u2019s <em>The Yellow Wallpaper <\/em>for the Schaub\u00fchne Berlin (2013), as well as the current Young Vic production of<em> The Cherry Orchard<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 16th October, 5pm \u2013 7pm, Grimond Lecture Theatre 3 ETRN Guest Lecture Dr Adam Ledger, University of Birmingham &#8216;Well, I&#8217;ve been sitting down a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2014\/10\/03\/well-ive-been-sitting-down-a-lot-observations-of-rehearsing-adapting-and-performing\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39610,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}