Keynote Practitioners
Bernadette Cronin
&
Regina Crowley
Bernadette Cronin teaches Voice, Devised Adaptation and Performance Practice at the Department of Theatre, University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. An actor, theatre-maker and deviser, she is a designated Linklater Voice Teacher and a co-founder and co-artistic director of Gaitkrash Theatre Company (www.gaitkrash.com). She holds a PhD in Theatre from the University of Exeter, UK.
Regina Crowley lectures in Voice, Performance and Directing at the MTU Cork School of Music, Ireland. A performer, director and deviser, she is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Gaitkrash Theatre Company (www.gaitkrash.com). She was designated by Kristin Linklater a Linklater Voice Teacher in 2010, and subsequently assisted Linklater in a number of training sessions and teacher designations.
Bernadette and Regina co-authored Kristin Linklater (2023) for the Routledge Performance Practitioners series.
Scenario 24 Keynote Practice Title:
Voice and Presence: Bringing your Self as a Teacher fully into the Room!
Eugenio Barba
Eugenio Barba is regarded as the world's leading practitioner on presence and intercultural theatre, with 60 years of experience. Since founding the Odin Teatret in 1964, he has directed over 81 productions including The Marriage of Medea (2008), The Tree (2016), The Deaf Man’s House (2019), A Character that Cannot Die (2020), Thebes at the Time of the Yellow Fever (2022).
In 1979 Eugenio founded the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA) and is on the advisory boards of scholarly journals such as The Drama Review, Performance Research, New Theatre Quarterly, Teatro e Storia and Teatrología.
Among his publications, translated into several different languages, are: The Paper Canoe (Routledge), Theatre: Solitude, Craft, Revolt (Black Mountain Press), Land of Ashes and Diamonds: My Apprenticeship in Poland, 26 letters from Jerzy Grotowski to Barba (Black Mountain Press), The Secret Art of the Performer (with Nicola Savarese) and the revised version of A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology (Centre for Performance Research/Routledge). In 2021 he founded the Journal of Theatre Anthropology.
Scenario 24 Keynote Practice Title:
Theatre Anthropology and Pre-Expressivity
Julia Varley
Julia Varley joined Odin Teatret in 1976. Julia teaches in schools and universities and has synthesised her experience in four work demonstrations: The Echo of Silence, The Dead Brother, Text, Action, Relations and The Flying Carpet.
Since 1990 she has been involved in ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) and of the University of Eurasian Theatre. Since its beginning in 1986 she has been active in The Magdalena Project, a network of women in contemporary theatre. She is also artistic director of Transit International Festival, Holstebro, and editor of The Open Page, a journal devoted to women’s work in theatre.
She has written two books: Wind in the West – a novel by a theatre character (Odin Teatret Forlag, Denmark) and Notes of an Odin Actress – Stones of Water.
Scenario 24 Keynote Practice Title:
Body and Voice: Principles of Intensifying Stage Presence