AHCT Newsletter

December 2002

Dear AHCT Colleague:

This issue of the AHCT Newsletter bears details on the Golden Age Theater Symposium in El Paso in March 2003, the Chamizal Siglo de Oro Theater Festival, and up-dates on AHCT activities. Please remember to check the mailing label on this newsletter for your dues status. Information on annual dues and membership renewal appears at the end of the letter.

Dues Reminder: The AHCT budget depends almost entirely on members' dues, which support the annual conference, the video library, the Comedia Bulletin Board, the AHCT web site, the biannual newsletter, the Everett Hesse Endowment, and other services. If you have been a member of AHCT during the past two years, by now you should have received a hard copy of the Newsletter via US mail. Please check the mailing label for your current dues status and use the enclosed form to renew your membership. If you have not been a member of AHCT, or if you have let your membership expire, please consider joining. Dues information appears at the end of the newsletter.

AHCT, Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium, El Paso, TX, March 6-8, 2003.

Conference highlights include a plenary session by Catherine Larson and David Pasto devoted to the translation and production of María de Zayas’s Friendship Betrayed. Pasto’s Oklahoma City University theater troupe will perform the play, using Larson’s translation, at the Chamizal Theater Festival on Friday, March 7. A second plenary session, organized by Angel Sánchez, will focus on performances at last year’s Chamizal Festival. In addition, this year’s conference organizing committee reports a full schedule of some 50 scholarly presentations by AHCT members.

Hotel Reservations: The 2003 conference will take place at the Camino Real Hotel (formerly Camino Real Hilton Hotel) in El Paso, Texas. Sessions begin Thursday morning, March 6, 2003, and end Saturday afternoon, March 8, 2003. Hotel reservations may be made by phone at 1-800-769-4300 or 1-915-534-3099, Monday through Friday, 8am to 6pm (MST). The deadline for the conference room rate is February 3, 2003. Participants must mention the AHCT Conference (Association for Hispanic Classical Theater) and request the group rate of $79 for a single or double or $94 for a triple (plus tax).  Please note: This is the same hotel in which AHCT conferences have been held in the past two years, though it has changed hands and is no longer a Hilton hotel.

Conference Registration: You must be a member of AHCT to register for the conference. If you are not currently a member, please send membership dues of $20 along with your conference registration fee. To register for the conference, send you name, affiliation, address, telephone, and e-mail address, with a check for $90 (faculty) or $30 (students) to: Professor Anita K. Stoll, First Vice-President, AHCT, 2081 Lamberton Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118. (E-mail: a.stoll@csuohio.edu. Please send registration and membership dues by February 8, 2003; there will be a late fee of an additional $10 for registration after that date. Checks should be payable to AHCT. Please send separate checks for dues and registration, and please indicate at the bottom left-hand corner of your check whether the payment is for dues or conference registration. Registration includes conference attendance, the AHCT Annual Banquet in the Dome Room in the Camino Real, transportation to and from the Chamizal National Memorial each evening for the Siglo de Oro Spanish Drama Festival, coffee and refreshments during the conference, and refreshments in the Hospitality Room after the theater performances.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is extended to January 10, 2003: The planning committee for the March 2003, AHCT conference has by now received a number of proposals similar to previous years, but space and time will allow some additional presentations. AHCT encourages studies on all aspects of performance of Siglo de Oro dramatic texts, though proposals on other topics related to Spanish Golden Age theater are welcome. Papers should be 20 minutes in length, in Spanish or in English. Send paper titles with 1-page abstracts and/or proposals for special sessions to: Prof. Donald R. Larson, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Cunz Hall 266, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210-1229. Tel.: (614) 292-2414. FAX: (614) 292 7726. E-mail: larson.3@osu.edu. Submissions may be sent by regular mail, by FAX, or as an e-mail attachment in Word. FAX transmissions should include a cover sheet addressed to Prof. Larson.   ( Please note: the revised deadline for submission of graduate student papers was December 20, 2002.)

Call for Volunteers: 1. AHCT provides transportation to Chamizal’s Siglo de Oro Festival for conference participants. Volunteers are needed to drive vans from the hotel to the Chamizal National Memorial beginning Wednesday, March 5, 2003. The conference registration fee will be waived for van drivers. 2. The El Paso Times publishes reviews of Chamizal Festival performances. The Chamizal staff has asked for volunteers to write reviews. Writers need to bring a laptop computer to submit reviews by publication deadlines. Please contact Sharon D. Voros (see below) to volunteer for either of these roles or for further information.

Officers & Board Meetings, Wednesday, March 5: Officers will meet at 9:00 a.m., and the Board will meet at 1:30 p.m., in the Camino Real Hotel.

Conference Up-Dates: Please check the AHCT website at www.comedias.org for conference updates. For additional questions about the conference, please contact the AHCT Conference Director, Professor Sharon D. Voros, Language Studies Department, 589 McNair Road, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402-5030, Tel.: (410) 293 6459. E-mail: voros@usna.edu.

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The Chamizal National Monument’s Siglo de Oro Drama Festival: Chamizal Artistic Director, Ms. Virginia Ness, notes that this year’s Siglo de Oro Drama Festival promises excellent productions and variety. She also notes that arrangements with performing companies have been confirmed and reconfirmed, though since 9/11 travel for international groups has been more difficult. Should there be changes in the Festival schedule they will appear on the Comedia Bulletin Board. Performances are currently scheduled as follows:

February 27 (Thursday): La hija del aire, Calderón de la Barca. Director, Mónica Raya . Compañía de Repertorio de la

facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM, Mexico City, México.,

February 28 (Friday). Fuenteovejuna, by Lope de Vega. Director, Maritza Wilde. La Paz, Bolivia.

March 1 (Saturday). El Condenado por Desconfiado, by Tirso de Molina. Director, González Puche. Cali,Colombia..

March 2 (Sunday). Casa de dos puertas mala es de guardar, by Calderón de la Barca. Director, Antonio León. Almagro,

Spain.

March 3 (Monday). Dark night (no performance).

March 4 (Tuesday). Dark night (no performance).

March 5 & 6, (Wednesday & Thursday). La fiesta de Juan Rana, from the texts of Quiñones de Benavente, Calderón de la

Barca, & Antonio de Solis. Director, César Oliva. Compañía Andrés de Claramonte de la Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.

March 7 (Friday) Friendship Betrayed, by María de Zayas y Saavedra. Trans. Catherine Larson. Director, David Pasto.

Oklahoma City University.

March 8 (Saturday). Abre el ojo, by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla. Director, Emilio del Valle. Producciones Inconsantes,

Madrid, Spain.

March 9 (Sunday). La vida es sueño, by Calderón de la Barca. Director, Julio Bauley. Teatro de Contrajuego, Los

Caobos, Caracas, Venezuela .

(Please remember to arrive early, since the Chamizal Monument can no longer reserve seats for AHCT members.)

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AHCT Grants & Awards: Congratulations to the Committee for Production in Translation, and especially to committee chair, Susan Paun de García, for their success in obtaining a $3,000 grant from the Spanish Ministry for Cultural Cooperation. The grant has been used to fund the AHCT Franklin Smith Translation Award of $1,000, given to Catherine Larson for her translation of María de Zayas’s Friendship Betrayed, and the AHCT Walker Reid Award of $2,000, given in support of David Pasto’s Oklahoma City University production of Larson’s translation at the Chamizal Festival.

AHCT Video Recordings Available in DVD Format: AHCT recognizes and thanks Gwyn Campbell, Chair of the Video Collection Preservation Committee, for her work on behalf of the video library. Gwyn has made available a comprehensive list of the videos which have been transferred to digital format (DVD) and which are available to members through the AHCT Video Library. The list will be included as an attachment/appendix to the e-mail version of this issue of the newsletter. For the Video Library catalog and borrowing instructions consult the AHCT web site: http://www.comedias.org.

Journal on Comedia Performance: As noted in the September newsletter, AHCT board member, Barbara Mujica, of Georgetown University, continues plans to initiate a journal titled, Comedia Performance. Direct inquiries and submissions to: Professor Barbara Mujica, Editor, Comedia Performance, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Box 571039, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. 20057-1039. Submissions may be sent on disk via US mail, or as e-mail attachments to: mujicab@gusun.georgetown.edu.

Appeal for Information for the “Comedia in Translation” Website: Susan Paun de García, Chair of the Production in Translation Committee, requests information about comedias performed in English, which members have seen or in which they have been involved. Playbills are preferable, but even basic details (playwright, title, company, director, place, dates) would be welcome. Bibliographic citations for members’ publications in English about the comedia are also welcome as are synopses in English of plays. The URL for the site is http://www.denison.edu/comedia/. Information should be sent directly to Susan, at: garcia@denison.edu

Contributions to AHCT: To make a donation in support of AHCT, simply fill out the enclosed AHCT donation page and send it with a check to: AHCT, P.O. Box 28226 Tempe, AZ 85282. Your support is deeply appreciated.

AHCT Dues Information: The mailing label on the newsletter will verify your dues status. The date by your name shows the end of the period for which membership has been paid (e.g., 3/03 = dues paid through March 2003). To keep your membership current and to help us keep our records accurate, please send dues and report corrections or changes in your address and affiliation to Anita Stoll (address below). To simplify payment, please feel free to pay for more than one year ahead.

Dues Categories: A) Individual Membership @ $20 annually [$5 to be applied to the Everett W. Hesse Memorial Endowment]; B) Individual Membership (Retired Members/Students) @ $10 annually; C) Patron Membership @ $25 annually with the privilege of requesting the loan of one video from our archives without charge; D) Sponsor Membership @ $50 annually with the privilege of requesting the loan of two videos from our archives without charge and the invitation to attend and participate in the annual meeting of the Board; E) Institutional Membership @ $50 annually with the privileges of D above; and F) Sustaining Membership @ 500.00, payable one time only, with the privileges of requesting the loan of two videos from our archives annually without charge and the invitation to attend and participate in the annual meeting of the board.

Please send dues to: Prof. Anita Stoll, Second Vice-President AHCT, 2081 Lamberton Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 (<a.stoll@csuohio.edu>). (Checks to: Association for Hispanic Classical Theater).

Best wishes for the holidays,

Robert M. Johnston, Recording Secretary

<robert.johnston@nau.edu>

Modern Languages, Box 6004

Northern Arizona University

Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6004

Appendix:

AHCT Video Recordings Available in DVD Format

through the AHCT Video Library (12/2002)

For the Video Library catalog and borrowing instructions,

consult the AHCT web site: http://www.comedias.org.

For information about the AHCT Video Preservation Project,

contact Committee Chair, Gwyn Campbell, at: campbellg@wlu.edu.

(**Entries marked with asterisks are in process and will be available soon.)

Calderón de la Barca: El alcalde de Zalamea. Teatro Repertorio Español (New York), 1992. CB92; ** El Alcalde de Zalamea. Comp. Francisco Portes (Madrid), 1994. CB94; El astrólogo fingido. Teatro de Repertorio Latinoamericano (Caracas), 1999. CB993; Los Cabellos de Absalón. Micomicón (Madrid), 2000. CB001; La dama duende. El teatro Gumbaya, Santo Domingo, 2000. CB003; La devoción de la cruz. Univ. Nacional por Educación y Cultura (SantoDomingo), 1988. CB882; **El galán fantasma. Comp. Teatro del Inst. De Seguro Soc, Chihuahau, 1995. CB952; El gran mercado del mundo. Univ. de Antioquia (Medellín), 1987. CB87; El gran teatro del mundo. Univ. de Anitoquia, 1987. CB002; **The Knight of Olmedo. (El caballero de Olmedo. Trans. Kenneth Stackhouse.) Virginia Commonwealth University, 1989. VC90; The Physician of His Honor (El médico de su honra). Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1997. CB972; La vida es sueño. Reportorio Español (NY), 1996. CB962; La vida es sueño (Auto sacramental). The Hispanic Society of America, Barnard College (NY). CB873.

Miguel de Cervantes: **El cerco de Numancia. Aguascalientes (Mexico), 1979. CS88CA; Entremeses ("El juez de los divorcios,""El viejo celoso," "Los habladores.") Thalia Spanish Theater (NY), 1995. CS951; "La Cueva de Salamanca" (See "El Juez" below.); "El Juez de los divorcios," "La Cueva de Salamanca, "Georgetown University.MIS922; "El licenciado vidriera." Tele española. Kara Dunn Armstrong Collection. CS87.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Los enredos de una casa. Centro Dramático de Extremadura (Badajoz), 1988. CI991; The House of Trials (Los empeños de una casa.) Oklahoma City Univ., 1998. CI96

Lucas Fernández: Auto de la Pasión. Tespis Compañía de Teatro. (Murcia), 1996. FL96

Mira de Amescua: La Casa del tahúr (Gambler's House.) Texas A & M. 1990 MA90

Moreto y Cabañas: El desdén con el desdén. Opera Factory and Esperante (Chicago). 1991. MC993; **De fuera vendrá. Butaca (Madrid), 1995. MC951: El lindo don Diego. Compañía "Francisco Portes" (Madrid), 1995. MC952

Quiñones de Benavente: **‑‑‑Entremeses. ("El cuero", "Los condes"" ""El miserable".)Univ. Auton. Metropolitana, 1991. MIS91

Fernando de Rojas: La Celestina. Univ. Nacional Autónoma de México (México, D.F.), 2000. RF00: La Celestina. Repertorio Español, 19974. (Kara Dunn Armstrong Collection). RF87; **La Celestina. Teatro Iberico de Lisboa, 1985. RF85

Rojas Zorilla: Donde hay agravios no hay celos. Teatristas de Aguascalientes (Méx.), 1980. RZ88CA; **Obligados y Ofendidos. Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico, Madricd. 1999. RZ99.

Lope de Rueda: Las aceitunas. Los Trotes (México) 1991. MIS912.

Juan Ruz: **El libro de bunen amor. Tel. Esp. Kara Dunn Armstrong Collection. RJ87

Ruiz de Alarcón: El dueño de las estrellas. Escuela de Arte Teatral, Inst. Nacional de bellas Artes (México, D.F.), 1986. RA86; El examen de los maridos. Univ. Nac. Auton. De México. 1987. RA87; Ganar amigos. Los juglares de Chihuahua (Chihuaha), 1988. RA88; No hay mal que por bien no venga. Aleph, Inst. Tecn. (Ciud. Juárez), 1985. RA85; The Liar (La verdad sospechosa). Antaeus Company (L.A.), 2000.RA00; Siempre ayuda la verdad. Centro de Arte Dramático (México, D.F.), 1992. RA92.

Tirso de Molina: El burlador de Sevilla. AIET (Universidad de Barcelona), 2000. Cat. No. TM00; El burlador de Sevilla. Escuela de Arte Teatral, Inst. Nacional de Bellas Artes (Mé xico, D.F.), 1990. Cat. no. TM902; El burlador de Sevilla. Compañía de Teatro Reportorio Espa ñol (NY), 1988. Cat. no. TM88; La celosa de sí misma. Thalia Spanish Theater/Teatro Círculo (NY), 1998. Cat. no. TM98; Marta la Piadosa; Por el sotano y el torno. University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras) 1986. Cat. No. TM864; **Rey y Trovador. Criso‑Bufons (New Mexico), 1997. TM971.

Lope de Vega: El acero de Madrid. Tiempo Común (Carácas), 1990. Cat. no. VC902; El bastardo Mudarra. La Luna (México), 1993. Cat. no. VC932; Las bizarrías de Belisa. Teatro Experimental del Centro Asturiano (México), 1993. Cat. no. VC93; El caballero de Olmedo. Compañía de Teatro de la Univ. de Guadalajara (México), 1985. Cat. no. VC85; El castigo sin venganza. "Piedra de Sol,"Compañía de Teatro Univ. de Guadalajara (México), 1997. Cat. no. LV971; La dama boba. Univ. Autónoma de Nuevo León (México), 1992. Cat. no. VC922; La discreta enamorada (In Love but Discreet.) University [of Missouri] Theater. Cat. No. VC862; Fuenteovejuna. Tel. española. Kara Dunn Armstrong Collection.Cat. no. VC87; La gatomaquia. Compañía de Teatro Corral. Univ. Autónoma de México (México D.F.), 1994. Cat. no. VC943; Los melindres de Belisa. La columna de Aguascalientes (México), 1987. Cat. no. VC872; El mejor alcalde, el rey. El Bohío Puertorriqueno (Río Piedras), 1992. Cat. no. VC92; Los milagros del desprecio. Teatro Mexicali a Secas (México), 1998. Cat. no. VC981; Peribáñez y el Comendador de Ocaña.Univ de Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras) 1989. VC89; El perro del hortelano (The Dog in the Manger.) University of Dublin Cat. No. VC882; La vengadora de las mujeres. "Comp. "Piedra de Sol"(Guadalajara), 2000. VC00.

Vélez de Guevarra: La serrana de la vera. Radio Televisión Española. Cat. no VDG89

Gil Vicente: La barca de la gloria. Tiempo Común (Carácas), 1987. Cat. no. VG87.