Description
What are the challenges and opportunities facing the theater community? Due to the pandemic, theater world-wide is in danger of losing its actors and technicians, not to mention its audience. While some measures have been taken, it does not replace the experience of a ‘spectacle vivant’. To address the situation of theatre today and come up with creative ideas to keep it alive and envision the future, the FFRI will listen to the French and Francophone theater community to see what they have been doing, off stage and on stage, and virtually or not, to overcome the situation. During the academic year, the Theater Revival project will organize a series of events involving the expertise of scholars in the field, actors, playwrights, and directors.
Team
Coordinator of the project
Hélène Blondeau, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, and Linguistics
Collaborators
Sylvie Blum, Professor of French and Film, Department of Languages, Literatures and Culture
Brigitte Weltman-Aron, Professor of French, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Alioune Sow, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies & African Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures & Center for African Studies
Hélène Huet, UF Librarian, European Studies
Co-Sponsors
University of Florida International Center, Center for European Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UF Libraries, The Center for African Studies
Events 2024
An Alternative Digital Humanities: Modeling and Simulation in the VESPACE Project
Dr. Jeffrey Leichman, Louisiana State University, February 1, 2024
Events 2023
Join us this March for ‘Reacting to the Past’: a Pedagogical Workshop on the Use of Role-Playing in a variety of courses, hosted by Dr. David Eick of Grand Valley State University.
“Masquerade as Theatre in Francophonie”: Presentation by Dr. Ron Popenhagen – February 10, 2023
The France-Florida Institute is delighted to welcome Dr. Ron Popenhagen to the University of Florida on February 10, 2023 at 3pm in Library East (Smathers) Room 100 for a presentation “Masquerade as Theatre in Francophonie: Africa, the Caribbean and France.”
Events 2022
Jacques Rivette: Life As Stage And The Stages of Life – April 15, 2022
Dr. Peter Schulman is Professor of French and International Studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric (Purdue UP, 2003) as well as Le Dernier Livre du Siècle (Romillat, 2001) with Mischa Zabotin. He is currently co-editor in chief of a journal of eco-criticism, Green Humanities with Josh Weinstein and a consultant for Shela Xorego’s new production of Corneille’s L’illusion comique that will be performed at the Theater for the New City in New York in April 2022.
Marilyn In French: Biopics On Stage – April 11, 2022
Dr. Florence Fix (Université de Rouen, France) presented a talk entitled “Marilyn in French: Biopics on Stage.” This event, part of the France-Florida Research Institute Theater Revival Project, was free and open to the public, and co-sponsored by the University of Florida International Center.
What are the challenges and opportunities facing the theater community? To address the situation of theatre today and come up with creative ideas to keep it alive and envision the future, the FFRI will listen to the French and Francophone theater community to see what they have been doing, off stage and on stage, and virtually or not, to overcome the situation. During the academic year, the Theater Revival project will organize a series of events involving the expertise of scholars, actors, playwrights, directors and actors.
Making and Tranformation in the 2018-2020 Production, La conférence des oiseaux – February 16, 2022
Dr. Cynthia Running-Johnson (Western Michigan University) delivered a lecture based on the play ‘La conférence des oiseaux’. This event was free and open to the public.