12th of November
Room 2.20, University of Salford campus at MediaCityUK
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Times:
Internal speakers, 3.30-4.20pm; External speakers, 4.30-5.45pm.
Internal Speaker: Dr Benjamin Halligan (Director of Postgraduate Research, CASS)
Progression Points, Regulations, Submissions and Vivas
This
session with review paperwork required by all PGRs across the course of
the year, offer tips for successful completion and registration, and
offer guidance on the “before and after” of the Viva experience.
External Speaker: Terry Victor (freelance playwright and performer)
Awkward Turtle Flips the Bird
Terry
Victor’s practice-led research talk will focus on his Awkward Turtle
Flips the Bird, a multi-media exploration of gestural slang as immersive
theatre and gallery installation: physical-verbatim theatre, by turns
playful, dark, romantic, surprising and dangerous, blending live action
with documentary visuals. The Awkward Turtle Flips the Bird project is
conceived and directed by Terry Victor with choreography by Rob McNeill.
Hundreds of everyday gestures, familiar and fanciful, dance through
their fractured narratives. This is thought to be the first time anyone
has ever attempted to stage a dictionary, and doing so presents a number
of interesting challenges. The notion of staging some form of
dictionary has challenged our Artistic Director for a number of years.
The two main threads in his professional life are creative performance
and slang linguistics - the gestural vocabulary of slang is where they
meet and the sparks fly.
Terry Victor is a playwright, storyteller,
comedy sketch writer, short story and article writer plus dictionary
compiler. He combines writing with a career as an actor and performer.
He has scripted numerous "murder mystery" events. Terry’s New Partridge
Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English was published with
Routledge in 2005. Further titles are contracted to follow. He is a
regular contributor to the BBC as lexicographer, book reviewer and
ranconteur. http://www.terryvictor.co.uk/
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