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1 Board of Directors Susan Paun de García, President Denison University The Association for Gwyn E. Campbell, 1st Vice President Washington & Lee University Hispanic Classical Darci L. Strother, 2nd Vice President Cal. State Univ., San Marcos Theater, Inc. Sharon Voros , Treasurer U.S. Naval Academy Newsletter: January 2013 Christopher D. Gascón, Secretary SUNY College at Cortland Happy 2013 and cordial greetings from the President and Board of Directors of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater! This issue of the newsletter Donald T. Dietz, President Emeritus Founder of AHCT contains information on the upcoming AHCT Symposium, March 7-9, 2013, the schedule of the Chamizal National Memorial’s 38th Annual Siglo de Oro Bárbara Mujica, President Emerita Golden Age Play Festival, and news on recent and upcoming conferences Georgetown University of interest to Hispanic classical theater enthusiasts. Robert Johnston, President Emeritus Northern Arizona University The AHCT Board of Directors would like to welcome its newest members, Manuel Delgado of Bucknell University and Anthony Grubbs of Michigan Mindy Stivers Badía State University. The Board also expresses sincerest gratitude for the many Indiana University Southeast years of dedicated service it has received from outgoing members Bonnie Isaac Benabu Gasior and Ángel Sánchez. Hebrew University A new year’s greeting from AHCT’s fourth William R. Blue Pennsylvania State University president, Susan Paun de García Bruce R. Burningham This promises to be an exciting year. I am looking forward Illinois State University to my twentieth year as an AHCT member and am as Manuel Delgado enthusiastic about our conference as ever. This year, as Bucknell University we renew friendships and welcome new acquaintances in El Paso, the program promises to be stimulating and enlightening, and the Anthony Grubbs Michigan State University Chamizal Festival de Drama del Siglo de Oro, begun in 1976, will be especially rich this year. Ben Gunter Florida State University This year’s conference will bring together more than 60 scholars and practitioners of Hispanic classical theater. Of special interest is the plenary David Hildner University of Wisconsin-Madison speaker, Ana Zamora, artistic director of Nao d’amores, a group of professionals with a background in classical theater, puppetry, and early Donald R. Larson music. Founded in 2001, the group undertakes research and training to Ohio State University bring to the stage works of medieval and Renaissance theater that are not Laura L. Vidler part of the usual repertoire, but that represent and illustrate basic West Point developmental steps in Spanish dramatic history. In her plenary, Zamora will elaborate on this process of research, analysis, and production, sharing Kerry Wilks how Nao d’amores discovers unknown works and brings them from the Wichita State University page to the stage. Amy R. Williamsen Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro The Chamizal “Siglo” festival will offer productions from four companies this year. The festival will open Wednesday, March 6 with Lope’s El caballero de Jason Yancey Olmedo, by Producciones Shake & Falstaff, of Puebla, Mexico. On Thursday Grand Valley State University March 7, Cambalache Teatro, from Murcia, will present Lope’s La Founding Members vengadora de las mujeres. On Friday March 8, Nao d’amores, of Segovia, David Gitlitz, Univ. of Rhode Island will bring to El Paso the U.S. premier of their signature production, Misterio Matthew D. Stroud, Trinity University del Cristo de los Gascones. On Saturday March 9, Morfeo Teatro, of Burgos, Vern Williamsen, U Missouri, Columbia will stage an adaptation of Cervantes’s El coloquio de los perros, and on Sunday, March 10, they will offer a collection of entremeses. All of these 23 Member News productions met with great success in festivals throughout Spain. Bárbara Mujica, President Emerita of AHCT, won bronze in the Maryland Writers' While the annual conference and the Association annual fiction contest, historical concurrent “Siglo” festival draw many fiction division, for her novel, I Am Venus, members to El Paso, they do not which revolves around the famous Rokeby Venus, painted by Diego Velázquez, court represent the full extent of AHCT painter to Philip IV. I Am Venus is scheduled undertakings. The Association’s journal, for publication in summer, 2013, and is Comedia Performance, will mark its Cambalache’s La vengadora de available for pre-order at Amazon.com. 10th issue this year under the guidance Mujica also won bronze in the short story las mujeres. Photo courtesy of division for "Imagining Iraq." She was the of Barbara Mujica. The text and video Francisco García Vicente. only contestant to win in two archives, curated by Laura Vidler and divisions. Mujica's new book, A New Jason Yancey respectively, have Mexico in 1930, in the wake of Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater: aided scholars around the world for Play and Playtext, is an illustrated, the Guerra Cristera. See: performance-based anthology to be decades, and have served as a model http://origenespuebla.blogspo published by Yale University Press in late now imitated by many other t.com/2011/10/el-caballero- spring, 2013. It is now available for pre-order organizations. The AHCT continues to de-olmedo-de-lope-de- at Amazon.com. add videos for the benefit of members, vega.html for details. Ben Gunter reports: “Theater with a Mission and digital texts for the use of scholars hopes that you will hear this call for help in everywhere. Through these ventures, With respect to Cambalache condensing Lope’s Nuevo mundo for we reach out to other scholars and to Teatro’s production of Lope’s performance during Florida’s a wider public sphere as well, through La vengadora de las mujeres Quincentennial. After a busy 2012 – performing scenes from Nuevo mundo for participation in other professional (Thursday, March 7), director the Museum of Florida History, the Florida organizations such as ATHE, ASTR, and Francisco García Vicente Anthropological Society, the Fort Mose Out of the Wings. With the latter, the comments: “Resulta muy Historic State Park, and Florida Living History AHCT is collaborating in an exciting interesante contemplar como, and reading new translations of scenes from La Numancia for the Battle of Bloody venture: a symposium in Bath, England, mediante la implícita Mose and the Auto de los Reyes Magos for to accompany the Royal Theatre denuncia, el cuestionamiento, Navidad en viejo San Agustín and First Bath’s Spanish Golden Age la ironía y la modificación de Christmas at Mission San Luis – Theater with productions next November under the atribuciones y usos sociales, a Mission is preparing to take a an artfully condensed 90-minute, 7-actor production direction of Laurence Boswell. Watch Lope vulnera lo establecido. El of Nuevo mundo around the state in 2013. the newsletter for future updates! autor no se inscribe en la Will you help? Write us at: ideología que se pretendía [email protected]. It has been a great pleasure to work dominante, sino en los closely with the board of directors and The Californias saw the arrival of Golden avatares reales del tiempo en Age Spanish theater in November 2012, officers of the AHCT for the past fifteen que vivió.” with a 3-university tour by 2RC Teatro years. Without their efforts and (Canary Islands). They played to full houses excellence as a team, the AHCT would Nao d’amores’ El misterio del at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja not have been able to thrive as it has. Cristo de los Gascones (Friday, California, California State University San Marcos, and California State University Long But as I assume the presidency of the March 8) is inspired by a Beach, as they performed "Desmontando a Association, I recognize that it is the renowned statue of Christ Don Juan," and "Se busca Juan Rana." The membership-- the hundreds of scholars housed in Segovia’s Iglesia San group also offered workshops, and did and practitioners who spread the word Justo. Director Ana Zamora outreach at San Marcos High School. This tri-national collaboration was spearheaded about the hidden treasures of Hispanic comments on some of the by Rafael Rodriguez (2RC Director, Spain), classical theater-- that is responsible for texts from which she drew the Jose Guadalupe Flores (UABC, Mexico), sustaining our organization. ¡Muchas material of the play: “La and CSU faculty Bonnie Gasior gracias! literatura medieval ofrece un and Darci Strother. curioso repertorio de textos Chamizal National que, formando parte de la Memorial 38th Annual Siglo liturgia, eran interpretados por clérigos que prestaban su voz de Oro Drama Festival 2013 y su gesto al relato evangélico…A esta categoría Producciones Shake and Falstaff’s de rituales o ceremonias Production staging of Lope’s El caballero de poster courtesy pertenecen una serie de of Darci Olmedo (Wednesday, March 6), creaciones músico-literarias, Strother. directed by Abril Mayett, is set in que hoy identificamos bajo las 2 AHCT Newsletter, January 2013 4 modernas denominaciones de Reminders tropos y prosas de las misas, oficios rimados y dramas litúrgicos Comedia Performance, AHCT’s annual de los oficios divinos. Bien journal, publishes articles on topics avanzado el siglo XV related to the performance of the encontramos ya los nombres de Spanish comedia. The subscription price los primeros padres del teatro is included in the annual AHCT español: con ellos la Edad Media membership dues. A three-year library penetra en la Edad Moderna. El subscription is $75; individual copies are Misterio del Cristo de los $20 each. Checks should be made out Gascones es una dramaturgia to AHCT and sent to Managing Editor Nao d’amores’ Misterio del Cristo original inspirada en todos estos Dr. Gwyn E. Campbell, Dept. of de los Gascones. Photo courtesy of referentes. articulada a partir de Ana Zamora. Romance Languages, 406A Tucker Hall, textos literario-dramáticos de Washington and Lee University, procedencia diversa: Lamentaciones fechas para la Semana Lexington VA 24450.