Corsica Project, Residential College

Corsica Project, Residential College

Grant:
Lecturers' Professional Development Fund (LPDF)
Academic Year:
2014 - 2015 (June 1, 2014 through May 31, 2015)
Funding Requested:
$1,130.00
Project Dates:
-
Applicant(s):
narenlob
Overview of the Project:
In November of 2013 I brought a small performance project (an interface of medieval and modern drama) involving of myself and three RC Drama students, to a cultural festival in Patrimonio, Corsica. This festival focusses on the traditional 11 November feast day of the town's patron saint, Martin of Tours. (See report in the Fall issue of RC News attached.) Our production was well received by the festival participants and got a very favorable notice in the local Corse Matin and the national Nouvel Observateur. We were enthusiastically invited back for 2014.
Final Report Fields
Project Objectives:

Have students work with a late 15th century French dramatic text toward a fully-produced and reconstructed performance. Translation of the text for future use in RC early drama courses.

Project Achievements:

a.) A successful and very well received performance on 8 November. The play was performed outdoors before the parish church of San Martinu on a magnificent site in view of the sea. The production worked with the Confraternita di San Martinu for its musical component. The UM students participated in the overall festival (sacred concert and bonfire on the Vigil, Mass and blessing of the new-wine, on the Saint’s day, etc.). Also a substantial motor tour of Cape Corse for the participants. b.) Seven undergraduate students were involved in the project. Some two dozen RC French students and faculty attended the preview performance on 5 November in the Keene Theater. c.) The project involved a two-credit minicourse (RC HUMS 485) for participants and became a component of the full-credit RC Drama course in Medieval Drama (HUMS 386). One student used the project to fulfill her upper level Readings course for the RC Language requirement.

Continuation:
Our production has been invited to the 50th Anniversary Poculi Ludique Societas Early Drama Festival in early June 2015. (RC Drama has participated in all nine of the medieval drama festivals of this University of Toronto performance group since 1983.)
Dissemination:
The work on this project is reflected in a paper by Martin Walsh, “The Claude la Gente Episode in Andrieu de la Vigne’s Mystere de Saint Martin: Perversionof the Law, a Bourgeois Heroine, and Testimony from beyond the grave” to appear shortly in Essays in Medieval Studies.
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