Gay McAuley

Talks

Papers delivered at conferences/public lectures

  • “Jacques Copeau and Antonin Artaud: the language of theatre”, Kathleen Robinson Lecture, University of Sydney, 1972.
  • “Le Théâtre du Soleil 1789: an epic theatre happening”, AULLA Conference, University of Adelaide, 1974.
  • “Problems of recording and notating theatrical performance”, SASSC Conference – Documentation and Notation of Performance, University of Sydney, 1983.
  • “The spatialisation of conflict in four performances of Les Bonnes”, Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth, 1985.
  • “Inscription of the mise en scène in the translation”, Panel on Theatre Translation, National Playwrights Conference, Canberra, 1985
  • “Semiotics of theatrical performance: actor and object in Les Bonnes”, ANZAAS, Symposium “Analysis Across the Arts”, Monash University, 1985.
  • “Body, space and language: the actor’s work on/with text”, International Summer Institute for Studies in Semiotics and Structuralism, University of Toronto, 1987.
  • “The documentation of theatrical performance”, Association Internationale de la Linguistique Appliquée, University of Sydney, 1987.
  • “The segmentation of performance and the construction of meaning in the theatre”, Australasian Drama Studies Association, Conference at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, 1990.
  • “Performance segmentation and meaning”, Performance Studies International, New York University (Tisch School of the Arts), 1990.
  • “A taxonomy of spatial function in the theatre”, Australasian Drama Studies Association, Conference at the University of New South Wales, 1991.
  • “Problems and politics of performance meeting discourse”, Plenary paper at conference of Melbourne Performance Research Group, University of Melbourne, 1991.
  • “Theatre in the age of technological reproducibility: methodologies and outcomes in the video documentation of theatrical performance”, Preserving our Performing Arts Heritage, Conference at Performing Arts Museum, Melbourne, 1992.
  • “Translation for performance”, Forum on Theatre and Translation, Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney, 1993
  • “Rethinking the paradigm: theatre and performance studies in the 1990s”, Postgraduate Research Seminar, Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney, 1994.
  • “Documenting rehearsal process”
  • Forum on The Performer’s Process, Centre for Performance Studies, University of Sydney, 1994
  • “Towards an ethnography of rehearsal”
  • International Federation for Theatre Research, annual conference, University of Quebec, Montreal, May 1995
  • “Rethinking the paradigm: theatre practice and critical theory”
  • Australasian Drama Studies Association conference, UNE, July 1995
  • “Multiple agenda: theatre and theatre studies at school and in the universities”
  • Performing Arts Education: the Coming Agenda, international symposium, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney, July 1995
  • “Drama, theatre, performance: the changing research paradigm”
  • Creative Investigations: Redefining Research in the Arts and the Humanities, symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Canberra, November 1995.
  • “Reflections on the spectator”
  • Australasian Drama Studies Association conference, ANU, Canberra, November 1996
  • “Whose rights? What rights? Ethical and political issues involved in the video documentation of live performance”
  • Australasian Drama Studies Association conference, Monash University, 1997
  • “The actor and the spectator in contemporary theatre practice”
  • Australasian Drama Studies Association conference (title: Industrial Relations)
  • Queensland University of Technology, 4-9.July 1999
  • “Theatre, film, performance: the role of the spectator”
  • Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics, University of Sydney, June 2000
  • “Reflections on place in the performance experience”
  • Australasian Drama Studies Association conference, University of Newcastle, July 2000
  • “Translation in the rehearsal room: serious play at the cultural interface”
  • Image into Identity, conference held at the University of Hull, September 2000
  • “BodyWeather in the Central Desert of Australia: towards an ecology of performance”
  • Théâtre: espace sonore, espace visuel, conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research, Lyon, September 2000
  • “Site specific performance: an overview”
  • SITE: A FORUM, The Performance Space, Sydney, September 2001
  • “Place and performance”
  • Place and Performance, Symposium, Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, November 2001
  • “Translation in the rehearsal room and in performance”
  • Translating Worlds, Conference, School of European, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages, University of Sydney, February 2002
  • “Space and Performance”
  • four lectures delivered at Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, June 2002.
  • “Place, performance, memory”
  • International Federation for Theatre Research, XIV World Congress, University of Amsterdam, 2002.
  • “Place and the performance of memory: Strathfield Plaza”
  • Place and Performance, Symposium, Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, February 2003
  • “Site-specific performance: place, memory and the creative agency of the spectator”
  • Plenary lecture delivered at “Beyond Aesthetics”, Graduate Summer School, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, July-August 2003.
  • “Place and the performance of memory: Darkie Point”
  • Place and Performance, Symposium, Department of Performance Studies,
  • University of Sydney, February 2004.
  • “Place and the performance of memory”,
  • Performance Studies International #10, Singapore, June 2004.
  • “Performance and the Politics of Place”
  • Panel facilitated at Poetics of Australian Space Symposium, Art Gallery of NSW, February 2005.
  • “Place and the performance of memory: Villawood Immigration Detention Centre”
  • Place and Performance, Symposium, Department of Performance Studies,
  • University of Sydney, March 2005
  • “Site-specific performance: place, memory and the creative agency of the spectator”
  • Public Lecture, Sydney University Arts Association, April 2005.
  • “Remembering and forgetting: place and performance in the memory process”
  • Australasian Drama Studies Association conference, Wagga Wagga,
  • July 2005.
  • PSI 2006 Asylum Seekers Panel
  • “Unsettled country: coming to terms with the past”
  • Keynote paper delivered at British Australian Studies Association conference (“Changing Australia”), Royal Holloway College, University of London, September 2008.
  • “What is Sydney about Sydney theatre: performance space and the creation of a ‘matrix of sensibility’”
  • Keynote contribution to Politik des Raumes/Theater und Topologie conference organised by the Freie Universität Berlin, October 2009.
  • “Haunting places: on not finding closure”
  • Keynote paper delivered at annual conference of Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project, University of Ulster, Derry/Londonderry, June 2012.
  • Versions of this paper were also delivered at research seminars at Aberystwyth University in October 2012 and the University of Cologne, Germany in December 2012.
  • “An ethnographic approach to theatrical rehearsal”
  • Paper delivered at research seminar, Royal Holloway University of London, November 2012.
  • “Observation et analyse du processus de création théâtrale: l’apport de l’ethnographie”
  • Keynote address to conference on Processus de Création et Archives du Spectacle Vivant, Université de Rennes, France. October 2014.
  • Revised version of this lecture also given at seminar of Groupe de Recherche “Scènes performatives”, Université de Paris III. November 2014.
  • “Rehearsal practice in the age of the director”
  • Paper delivered at symposium on The Logics of Exercises, Trainings, Tests and Rehearsals, Goldsmiths University of London, November 2014.
  • “Observation, documentation and analysis of rehearsal process”
  • Seminar/Presentation for Masters Students at Central School of Speech & Drama, London, November 2015.
  • “In conversation” Gay McAuley and Katherine Johnson, Sheffield Hallam University, 14. March 2018.
  • Talk for Holocaust Research Centre about JM’s book – find details
  • Grenoble 2018 lecture and seminar – add details
  • Vitry Rencontres 2019 – add details
  • Q and A with Dr Duska Radisavlievic, Central School of Speech and Drama,
  • 28. October 2019.