About the conference

“Stages of Crisis” is the Fourth Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network. It will take place on July 6,7 and 8, 2022 at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Madrid.

The impact of COVID-19 over the peninsular scene has reached a wide range of formal, legal, and sociological aspects. This adverse scenario to the theatrical act points out how the inestable historical contexts affect the dramatic arts, highlighting its features of adaptability, mobility, and change. In this sense, the fourth biennial conference of the ITPN will focus on the stages of crisis. We are particularly interested in approaches to dramatic manifestations through crises of diverse order (ideological, economic, cultural, identity, moral, etc.). The conference will promote a transhistorical approach to embrace presentations that study sceneries of political, economic, and social crisis in previous theatrical periods. In addition, it will study the contact points between the performative manifestations in the languages of the Spanish state and other national traditions in times of crisis. The objective of this congress aims to dialogue and interchange ideas between the theater practitioners and academics about the peninsular theater in periods of crisis.

Steering Committee for ITPN

María del Pilar Chouza-Calo (Central Michigan University)

Esther Fernández (Rice University)

Juan Hernando Vázquez (University of California, Davis)

Javier Irigoyen-García (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)

David Rodríguez-Solás (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Local Organizing Committee

David Boceta (RESAD)

Consuelo García (RESAD)

Juan Hernando Vázquez (ASB)

Pablo Iglesias Simón (RESAD)

Andrés Pérez Simón (UAM)

Nacho Sevilla (RESAD)