From: Robalino, Gladys [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 09:50
To: Lauer, A Robert
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We are organizing a panel for the NEMLA conference in Harrisburg, PA next March 2014. Pls find the call for papers below for anyone interested.

Re-writing Cervantes’s Fictions from the Stage

Since 1800, theatrical performances based on Cervantes’s Don Quijote began to gain popularity both in Spain and Latin America. For example, in 19th century Mexico, abridged versions of the Quijote circulated among puppeteers. This tradition of innovative recreations of Cervantes’s novel has survived into the present day. The experimental interpretation by the Double Edge Theater, The Unpossessed (2004), the Avant-Garde reworking by Els Joglars’s, En un lugar de Manhattan (2005), or the 2007 musical Man of La Mancha directed by Art Grueneberger and performed using life-sized marionettes are only a few examples of a wide range of artistic groundbreaking and imaginative contemporary productions. Nevertheless, to this great wave of stage adaptations of the Quijote, it is fitting to add dramatizations of Cervantes' Novelas Ejemplares which have recently been staged in celebration of the 400th anniversary of their publication. This seminar seeks to discuss and explore recent performances, adaptations, and dramatic abridgements of Don Quijote and the Novelas Ejemplares and how they are contributing to create an alternative, experimental way of looking at Cervantes’s prose legacy on the stage. Papers can be in either English or Spanish. Please Send 200 word proposals by September 30 to Esther Fernández at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and Gladys Robalino at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.