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Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
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3/10/98
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NATCHITOCHES - Dr. Jim Stacy, assistant professor of theatre at Northwestern State University, will make two presentations at national theatre conferences in April.
Stacy will present a paper, "Sparring with Words: Crosscultural Proformative Context for Verbal Duelings," at the 1998 Theatre Symposium of the Southeastern Theatre Conference at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville April 2-4.
According to Stacy, the symposium will focus on the topic, "Theatre and Violence." His paper looks at how verbal violence has been ritualized as performance in both the aesthetic theatre and in other sociocultural events. Papers presented at the conference will be published in the annual edition of "Theatre Symposium."
Stacy's second paper, "Sondheim and the Matter of Perspective(s)," will be delivered at the William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kan., the hometown of the playwright Inge. Papers presented at the festival focus either on Inge or the playwright being honored. This year's honoree is composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
Stacy just finished directing Sondheim's "Assassins" at NSU.
The NSU faculty member was also chosen to present two workshops at the Southeastern Theatre Conference in Birmingham, Ala. The workshops are, "The Playwright as Reviser: A Case Study of Sam Shepard's Revisions to 'Buried Child'" and "Shuffling the Deck: Alternate Approaches to Scene and Monologue Work."