All posts from February 2016


Performing Premodernity @ Vadstena-Akademien

In summer 2016, Performing Premodernity took part in a major collaboration with the Vadstena Academy: an opera double-bill under the title of ”Kär och galen”. Comala, based on one of the dark and brooding Ossian poems by James Macpherson, takes place in the mists of 3rd century Scotland, while Nina, a “sentimental comedy”, takes us […]

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IFTR annual conference held in Stockholm 13-17 June 2016

The members of Performing Premodernity took part in the 2016 annual conference of the International Federation of Theatre Research which will be held in Stockholm. The conference “Presenting the Theatrical Past. Interplays of Artefacts, Discourses and Practices” addressed questions concerning our relationship to theatre history, i.e. the relation between present and past. How and why […]

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Rousseau’s Pygmalion in Český Krumlov and Stockholm 

Performing Premodernity’s production of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s melodrama Pygmalion premièred on 15 June 2015 in the Baroque theatre in Český Krumlov. The successful performance was a result of the joint efforts of the actors João Luís Paixão (PP associate) as Pygmalion and Laila Neuman (PP associate) as Galathée, their acting coach Jed Wentz (PP associate), the […]

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