We will hold an informal conference dinner on Friday evening at attendees’ own expense. This will take place in the ‘Rabbit Hole’ restaurant on Hallgarth Street (Cantonese/‘fusion’ cuisine; menu available here). Please inform Mark in advance if you’d like to attend (mark.chambers@durham.ac.uk).

   9.00 onwards

Registration and Coffee   

   9.20

Welcome    

   9.30-11.00

Panel 1: Reconsidering ‘Performance’ in the Archive
Ben Parsons (University of Leicester):
          ‘Mum’s the Word: E.K. Chambers, Horatia Eden and the Lutterworth St George Play’
Phil Butterworth (University of Leeds):
          ‘The York Mercers’ “pottyng stang”: Further Consideration of its Function’
Sarah Carpenter (University of Edinburgh):
          ‘“Is this a Drama Record?”: Sir David Lyndsay and Pursuing Traces of Performance’

   11.00

Coffee

   11.20-12.50

Panel 2: ‘Celebrating’ Performance in the Archive
James Cummings (University of Newcastle):
          ‘Re-examining the Records: The Bishop’s Lynn Christmas Play of 1444/45’
Daisy Black (University of Wolverhampton):
          ‘Apple, Spice, Wine, Ale: Mundane and Sacred Foods in Early Performance Cultures’
Mark Chambers (University of Durham) :
          ‘50 Years of the Records of Early English Drama: The New, the Notable, the Necessary’

   12.50

Mark Chambers and/or Cecilia Istria-Dorland):
          Introduction to the afternoon play

   13.00-14.00

Lunch

   14.00-15.30

Diana Wyatt (York):
          ‘“Contempt and disdayne” or Satirical Theatre? Alice Walker’s Cross-dressing Turn in Driffield Church, 1582, and its Status as a REED Record’
Isabelle Lepore-Thompson (Open University):
          ‘The Lost Miracle Play: Contextualising the Ludus de Sancta Katerina (c.1110–1115)’
Patrick Durdel (University of Oxford):
          ‘The Group Theatre’s Fulgens and Lucrece: Modern Archival Records and Practice-as-Research’

   15.30

Break

   16.00

Performance of the York Skinners’ ‘Entry Into Jerusalem’ pageant, Scena Mundi Theatre Co., directed by Cecilia Istri-Dorland, St Oswald’s Church, Church Street.

   17.00-18.00

METh business meeting, with wine