Public Screens, Public Cultures: Screen Cultures in Cairo, London and Shanghai by Professor Chris Berry, King’s College London- 12pm, CACSSS Seminar Room. 

Animal Turns: the Performativity of Beasts

Masterclass with writer-director, Alan Gilsenan. Monday Nov. 13th at 15h, Film and Screen Media auditorium, Kane basement.

14th March 2018 - Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin st, Cork
Talk title : ‘I Never Knew the Abbey Did That’
Phil Kingston – Abbey Theatre Community and Education Manager, Perforum Spring 2018 
Perforum Spring 2018 'Innovative Practice in the Performative Arts 
Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm
Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

On every hour there will be a 30' video follow by a 10' art/sound installation. Also during the entire duration of the event there will be an exhibition of images/videos and a solo durational dance performance (6 hours) where audience are free to stay as long as they wish. Free entrance. This is part of Inma Pavons PhD. All welcome.

Staging Beckett's Prose

15th February: Gare St Lazare Ireland in conversation with Dr. Nicholas Johnson (TCD)

In conversation with Dr. Nicholas Johnson, Judy Hegarty Lovett and Conor Lovett of Gare St. Lazare Ireland will discuss their work on staging Beckett’s prose. There will be a special focus on their current work in development on Beckett’s prose piece How it is (1964).

PERFORUM SPRING 2017

Samuel Beckett: Musicality, Making, and Other Archives 

Wednesdays 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm. Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork.

Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

Running 8th - 11th March in the Granary Theatre

Tickets €10/5

FOREGROUNDS 2017 showcases the theatre-making talents of final year single and joint honours students in Drama & Theatre Studies at UCC.

A theatre evening in two parts, FOREGROUNDS 2017 presents 21^st Century adaptations of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll, The Tain, Orpheus and Eurydice, ‘The Canterville Ghost’ by Oscar Wilde and a piece of documentary film adapted from the real life experience of a lung transpantee.

Samuel Beckett: Other Archives

22^nd March: Professor David Pattie, Professor of Drama at the University of Chester

PERFORUM SPRING 2017

Samuel Beckett: Musicality, Making, and Other Archives 

Wednesdays 6:00 pm – 7:45 pm. Theatre Development Centre, Triskel Christchurch, Tobin Street, Cork.

Perforum events are open to the public and admission is free.

Drama and Theatre Studies Students at their annual visit to the Abbey Theatre for a casting/audition workshop. 

Next weekend the 25th - 28th May sees the second SCENARIO Forum Conference entitled 'Performative Spaces in Language, Literature and Cultural Education'. Celebrating 10 years of SCENARIO Forum Journal this Conference welcomes over 100 speakers and workshop leaders from four continents and eighteen countries to explore the potential of performative spaces in relation to different content areas, genres, themes and approaches.