DOCTOR KNOCK EnrichMINT Events:
April 17th (following the 2:00 performance)
Jules Romains: An Introduction
Jeanine Parisier Plottel: Professor Emeritus, Hunter College & The Graduate Center, CUNY, and former chair of the Hunter Department of Romance Languages, is the author of many articles and books in both French and English. The French government has decorated her twice for her contributions to French Language, Literature and Culture. She presently serves on several boards, including Barnard College, where she is a trustee, the Society for French American Cultural Exchange (FACE), the Columbia University Maison Française, and the NYU Institute of French Studies. She traces her intellectual genealogy to Jules Romains: her Ph. D. thesis advisor, friend, and mentor, Jean Hytier, was one of Jules Romains’s students.
April 18th (following the 2:00 performance)
Dr Knock in context: a discussion of
theater in France
Professor Judith Graves Miller: Chair, Department of French at NYU and former Director of NYU in Paris from 1998-2003. Dr. Miller specializes in Francophone Literature (particularly theater). Professor Miller has done extensive work in 20th century French theater: Theory, Production and Text and is recognized as a leading authority on Francophone theater. Her talk will focus on theater in France when Knock was first written and produced.
April 21st (following the 7:00 performance)
Jules Romains and Dr. Knock: the best of European Theater in the 1920’s
Tom Bishop: Florence Gould Professor of French Literature, NYU and Director of NYU’s Center for French Civilization and Culture. His many publications include From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel, Remembering Roland Barthes: 20 Years Later, and L'Avant-garde thétrale: French Theater Since 1950. His writings on contemporary theater, and on France and French-American relations have appeared in Le Monde, The New York Times Book Review, Yale French Studies, and elsewhere. Professor Bishop has been awarded the Grand Prize of the Académie Francaise and been named Officer of the French Legion of Honor, Commander of the French Order of Merit, and Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
April 22nd (following the 7:00 performance)
Knock, Romains and the “Unanimist Vision”
Romains believed that life does not revolve around the individual but rather his place within the structure of contemporary society. His poem La Vie Unanime, like all of his subsequent writing gave expression to this newborn philosophy of “Unanism”. Professor Daniel Gerould will explain Romains’ idea and discuss our play in this context.
Daniel Gerould, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center
Major publications include: Theatre/Theory: Theory/Theatre (ed. Applause, 1999); Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore (Blast Books, 1992); The Witkiewicz Reader (ed. and trans. Northwestern University Press, 1992); Doubles, Demons, and Dreamers: An International Collection of Symbolist Drama (editor. Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1983); and American Melodrama (editor. Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982). He is also the series editor of “Polish and Eastern European Archives” (Harwood) and editor of Slavic and East European Performance.
April 24th (following the 2:00 performance)
Feigned Illness, a discussion of
Theater and Medicine
Alexis Soloski is a theater critic at The Village Voice and a contributor to The Guardian, The New York Times and BBC Radio. She is completing a dissertation at Columbia University, entitled Feigned Illness: Drama and Disease, which examines the interrelation of theater and medicine and locates the theaters themselves as fraught spaces in which both ideas and diseases can circulate.
May 1st (following the 2:00 performance)
Examining the Ethics of Dr. Knock
Dr. Terry Perlin is a consultant on medical ethics. He is the author of Clinical Medical Ethics: Cases in Practice (Little, Brown and Co.). He has been a faculty member at Williams College (MA); and a Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and a Research Fellow at Scripps Gerontology Center at Miami University (OH), and has held appointments at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco.
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