The Cultural History of English

The Cultural History of English Pantomime POLITICS, PERFORMANCE AND POPULAR CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

Provisional Schedule

(7-9 July 2011) The Storey, Lancaster

*** THURSDAY 11.00-12.30: Arrive and register. Coffee/Lunch on arrival.

12.30-1.30: Welcome and conference introduction: ‘the politics of the pantomime is the politics of the people’ (Kate Newey, Peter Yeandle, Claire Robinson)

1.30-3.30: PANEL I: Performance and Popular Culture (chair: Kate Newey)

1. Rohan McWilliam 2. Jacky Bratton 3. Malcolm Chase (Anglia Ruskin) (RHUL) (Leeds) ‘Victorian Night Life and ‘The politics of ‘“Love, bitter wrong, the West End of London: performance and the freedom, sad pity, and The Haymarket popular appeal of Charles lust of power”: politics Saturnalia’ Dickens.’ and performance in 1820.’ 3.30-3.45: Break. 3.45-4.00: David Mayer – film clip 1.

4.00-6.00: PANEL II: The Streets (chair: Anselm Heinrich)

4. Nick Nourse 5. Fern Riddell 6. Patricia Smyth (Bristol) (King’s) (Nottingham) ‘Contested streets: music ‘Crime, Community and the ‘Sites of Memory: Lost of the poor and the law.’ Music Halls, 1853-1913.’ London on the Nineteenth-Century Stage’ Evening meal: Optional. £17.00.

FRIDAY 1 7.30- 8.45: Breakfast

9.00-11.00: PANEL III: Platforms, Prints and Performance (Chair: James Taylor)

7. Richard Gaunt 8. Brian Maidment 9. Mike Sanders (Nottingham) (Salford) (Manchester) ‘Sir Robert Peel as Actor ‘Performance, Print, Text ‘The Platform and the Dramatist’ and Tune – Songbooks, Stage: Correspondences, 1820-50’ Metaphors and Structures of Feeling.’ 11.00-11.20: Break. 11.20-11.30: David Mayer film clip 2.

11.30-1.30: PANEL IV: The political body (Chair: Tbc).

10. Judi Leighton 11. Laura Monros- 12. Sophie Duncan (Open University) Gaspar (Brasenose College, Oxford) (Valencia) ‘Politics and Satire in the ‘Cassandra, Women and ‘Rosalind on Rotten Row: Extravaganzas of James Victorian Burlesque’ Gender Performance, Lillie Robinson Planché and Langtry and the Dress Lucia Vestris at the Controversy (1888-9)’ Olympic Theatre London’

1.15-2.00: Hot buffet lunch 2.00-2.15: David Mayer Film Clip 3

2.15-4.15: PANEL V: Topical allusion/social referencing (Chair: Cathy Haill)

13. Jane Pritchard 14. Aileen Robinson 15. Jill Sullivan (Victoria & Albert (Northwestern) (Independent Museum) Researcher) ‘Dancing Disraelis: An ‘Performing the Season: ‘Pantomime and the Irish overview of the inclusion Christmas, Politics and Question’. of political and topical Victorian Pantomime.’ references in the music hall ballets at the Metropolitan and South London music halls 1870- 1884.’

4.15 – 4.45: Break

4.45 – 6.00: PANEL VI: Theatre Reform and the Question of Legitimacy (Chair: Jeffrey Richards)

16. Marcus Risdell 17. Caroline Radcliffe (Garrick Club) (Birmingham)

‘The Garrick Club and ‘Henry Irving and the Music 2 Theatre Reform 1831- Hall: Theatrical Hierarchy, 1843.’ Cultural Capital and the Legitimate/Illegitimate Divide.’

Conference Dinner: 7.45

*** SATURDAY

7.30-8.30: Breakfast 8.45-10.45: PANEL VII: Sex, Gender, Childhood, Family (chair: Tess Cosslett)

18. Jim Davis 19. Victor Emeljanow and 20. Sos Eltis (Warwick) Gillian Arrighi (Brasenose, Oxford) (Newcastle, AUS) ‘“Slap on! Slap ever!” or ‘Children of the Empire: tales ‘Mixed genres and mixed Thighs aren’t what they of transgression and messages: reading the used to be”: accommodation.’ lesson of the fin-de-siècle Victorian Pantomime sex-problem play.’ and the Politics of Gender Variance.’ 10.45-11.05: Morning coffee. 11.05-11.20: Catherine Gerbrands: Stage archive.

11.15-1.15: PANEL VIII: The theatre of socialism (Chair: Peter Yeandle)

21. Janice Norwood 22. Marcus Morris 23. Philippa Burt (Hertfordshire) (Lancaster) (Goldsmith’s)

‘Missing Militants: ‘“Top Hat and Cloth Cap”: ‘Granville Barker’s Industrial Relations on The Performance Of Socialist ensemble as a model for the East End Stage in Politics’ Fabian theatre.’ the 1880s’ 1.15-2.00: Lunch

2.00-4.00: PANEL IX: Melodrama and its alternatives (Chair: Kate Newey)

24. Sharon Aronofsky 25. Sarah Meer 26. Tracy Davis Weltman (Cambridge) (Northwestern) (Louisiana State) ‘“Tis an Idle Prejudice I “‘Boucicault’s ’98”: Offstage Title tbc Grant”: Representing Rebellion in Arrah-na- Race in Pitt’s The String Pogue’. of Pearls.’ Conference ends. 3 And pub.