COD 2021 - D494

Bilingual cultural programme - Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter Revisited

Anyone interested in literature and drama

1 sessions, start: 14-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2021
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Schedule
1 14 April 2021 Online session

Facilitator/s

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).
Anyone interested in literature and drama
In this session we’ll go over the features of Harold Pinter’s play that make it relevant today. After that, we will have a conversation with the actresses and director of the version that will go on stage in Buenos Aires from April 25 to June 27.
Information about the play and the company can be found at http://www.alternativateatral.com/obra74494-el-montaplatos
- The theatre of the absurd
- Harold Pinter’s themes, style and characters
- The play's relevance today
- The version that will go on stage in Buenos Aires: what does it mean to have two actresses playing two traditional male roles?
- The challenge of transposing the play to a different context of reception
An initial talk in English with audience participation and then an interview with the director and the actresses, in Spanish.
Pinter, Harold, The Dumb Waiter
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