9.30-10.00 Registration   

  

10.00-11.30 Panel 1: Charabanc Theatre Company. 

Chaired by Dr Mark Phelan

Speakers: Dr Charlotte Headrick - From Belfast to Corvallis:  Directing the American Premiere of Charabanc’s Lay Up Your Ends 

Dr Ciara Murphy – Double Jeopardy: Women’s Experience in the North of Ireland 

  

11.30-12.00 Coffee break   

  

12.00-13.00 Rehearsed Reading of a new play by Brenda Winter Palmer,  

At Home with Typhoid Mary 

  

13.00-14.00 Lunch   

  

14.00-15.15 Panel 2: Gender and Contemporary Theatre in NI. 

Chaired by David Grant

Speakers: Dr Alex Coupe - Stitched Up: Feminist Theatre Making after Charabanc 

Ross Anderson-Doherty - Doing All the Gender at Once: Just not on the mainstream stage 

 

15.15-15.30 Comfort break   

  

15.30-16.45 Artists Panel Chaired by Maggie Cronin 

Speakers: Finn Kennedy, Zoe Seaton, Alice Malseed, Gina Donnelly, and Raquel McKee 

 

16.45-17.00 Comfort break   

 

17.00-18.30 Watch Our lips, We’re Speaking: A talk by Carol Moore about Charabanc’s first production, Lay Up Your Ends 

with readings by Marie Jones and Brenda Winter, followed by a Q&A.  

Chaired by Dr Charlotte Headrick.