• November 6th Katie Mitchell (Desire Line Sessions) at 9am via Zoom.

Katie Mitchell: Screening of Fraulein Julie + Q&A

November 6, 2022 12:00 PM–November 6, 2022 2:30 PM

Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

College of Fine Arts - RM 111

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The option to attend via zoom is primarily to serve our international audience members and guest speakers. We encourage all local attendees to do so in-person (to the best of their ability) for the highest quality audio/visual experience. Transmission over zoom necessitates a level of audio/video compression which falls short of our in-house projection and sound system.

Please join us on Sunday November 6th at 12pm (EST) for a special screening of “Fraulein Julie” followed by a hybrid lecture with Katie Mitchell. This screening and lecture was curated by Special Visiting Professor of Directing Ivan Talijančić (John Wells Directing Program – CMU Drama) as part of his Contemporary Performance Practices series, with support from the 2022-2023 Sylvia & David Steiner Speaker Series, The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and Simon Fraser University.

Fraulein Julie is a radical re-working of Strindberg’s original play, seeing the action through the eyes of the servant Kristin rather than the more famous pair of protagonists, Jean and Julie. The production uses five live cameras to view the action through the prism of this female character in order to ask questions about gender, class and power.

Live cinema is a technique pioneered by Katie Mitchell where the audience experience a live performance of a play at the same time as a live constructed film. The film is projected simultaneously on a large screen above the live stage action. The production also uses live Foley sound effects and voices overs.

Strindberg’s original text is supplemented by the poetry of the Danish writer, Inger Christensen, to provide the interior thoughts of Kristin. Fraulein Julie was directed for the Schaubühne Theatre (Berlin, Germany) in 2010 and has toured to over 100 different venues across the globe since it opened.

Following the screening of Fraulein Julie, Katie Mitchell will join us via Zoom for a Q&A moderated by Prof. Talijancic, along with a panel of MFA John Wells Directing Fellows and Professor Erika Latta (Assistant Professor of Theater Performance, School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.)

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Katie Mitchell

Katie Mitchell has directed over 100 productions in a career spanning 30 years. She directs mainstream text-based theatre, opera, and live cinema productions (a unique combination of video and theatre techniques). In the UK she has directed 9 productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, 19 for the National Theatre and 12 for The Royal Court – and she has been an Associate Director at all three organizations. In opera, she has directed for English National Opera, Glyndebourne Opera, Welsh National Opera, and the Royal Opera House.

She is currently a Professor in Theatre Directing at Royal Holloway University where teaches an MA directing course. Her other academic roles include Visiting Professor of Opera at Oxford University in 2017, Visiting Fellow at Central St Martin’s in 2016 – 2018, and an Honorary Fellow at Rose Bruford College, in 2014. She is currently a Cultural Fellow at Kings College, London, the TORCH Visiting Fellow in Theatre at Oxford University, and Visiting Lecturer at Columbia University, New York.

Dimitris Papaioannou : February 5th Sunday Dimitris Papaioannou via (Zoom)

REGISTRATION LINK: https://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/events/dimitris-papaiaonnous-the-great-tamer

Born in Athens in 1964, Dimitris Papaioannou gained early recognition as a painter and comics artist, before his focus shifted to the performing arts, as director, choreographer, performer, and designer of sets, costumes, make up, and lighting.

He was a student of the iconic Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis before studying at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

He formed Edafos Dance Theatre, in 1986 as an initial vehicle for his original stage productions, hybrids of physical theatre, experimental dance, and performance art.

Originating in the underground scene, the company challenged perceptions and gained an expanding number of dedicated followers. MEDEA (1993) marked the company’s transition to big theatres and is considered its iconic work. The Edafos company spanned 17 years, to 2002, and set its indelible stamp on the arts scene in Greece.

Papaioannou became widely known in 2004, as the creator of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games.

Restarting in 2006, with his production ‘2’, he found himself in the odd position of creating avant-garde works in major theatres in Athens that enjoyed record-breaking long runs, with over 100.000 tickets sold.

In 2009, he began using this platform to create theatrical experiments on a large scale: NOWHERE (2009) for the inauguration of the renovated Greek National Theatre and INSIDE (2011) for the Pallas Theater.