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2008
SCHOLAR’S CONFERENCE
Friday, April 25th
and Saturday, April 26th
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
Lecture Hall (Academic Building,
Room 200), ICC Campus
Introductions by Conference
Chair, Dr. Jackson Bryer
Presentations Moderated by
Richard A. Davison
SESSION I
Friday, April 25
Anne Estes,
Minneapolis, MN
"Millie
Owens and Her Emerging Identity"
Janet Raskin,
Orlando, FL
“Images of Alienation: The
Plays of William Inge and the Paintings of Edward Hopper”
Paulo
Ricardo Berton,
University of Colorado, Boulder
"Searching for the Main
Characters in William Inge’s
PICNIC”
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SESSION II
Saturday, April 26
M. Geetha
Vivekanandhan,
Dehli University
“Beneath the Surface: A
Study of Symbols in the Plays of William Inge”
Dr. Susan C. W.
Abbotson,
Rhode Island College
“The Deadly Seriousness of America’s Funniest Playwright:
Christopher Durang”
Kasey Korth,
Texas
State
University
“The Women in William
Inge’s BUS STOP”
Thanks
to all who submitted papers for this year's conference.
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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 23-26, 2008.
for
We are pleased to announce that the
27th Annual Festival we are honoring the work of
Christopher Durang, t best known for “Beyond Therapy,” “The
Marriage of Bette and Boo,” “The History of American Film,”
and “Sister Mary Ignatious Explains it all to you.”
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, Tina Howe and Sheldon Harnick.
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