Beginner’s Luck? A first-time director tackles a york play

2006 was a year of firsts for me: My first term teaching abroad; my first summer living in Cambridge; and, my first opportunity to direct a play. Although I had acted in many plays in the past, and had participated in many activities characteristic of school student productions – painting sets, building scaffolding, and maintaining props – I had never even run a sound or lighting cue, and had certainly never directed. Like all amateur actors, I had made an occasional suggestion, and once or t..

Renaissance du théâtre médiéval

Cet ouvrage réunit une partie des contributions proposées en juillet 2007 au XIIe colloque de la Société internationale du théâtre médiéval (SITM). En montrant la permanence des formes dramatiques médiévales dans la tradition textuelle et scénique occidentale, et en rappelant le succès de certains de ses retours à la scène, l’ouvrage réhabilite la qualité dramatique du théâtre médiéval, et il réfléchit aux diverses manières de la mettre au jour. Entre amateurs et professionnels du spectacle : quelle est la chance du théâtre médiéval ? Si elles ne se cristallisent que dans le jeu amateur du théâtre universitaire, les pratiques scientifiques qui étudient ensemble les textes et leurs archives rendent seule possible la définition de ces textes comme performances. À l’inverse, il apparaît qu’une fois replacées dans leur contexte historique ou politique, des adaptations du théâtre médiéval par des dramaturges ou des acteurs professionnels ne rendent pas toujours justice à sa théâtralité propre. La renaissance du théâtre médiéval, c’est alors l’alliance de la science et de la scène, qui seule permet d’explorer le véritable potentiel dramatique de textes méconnus

The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC

High energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a large number of particles along the beam collision axis, outside of the acceptance of existing LHC experiments. The proposed Forward Physics Facility (FPF), to be located several hundred meters from the ATLAS interaction point and shielded by concrete and rock, will host a suite of experiments to probe standard model (SM) processes and search for physics beyond the standard model (BSM). In this report, we review the status of the civil engineering plans and the experiments to explore the diverse physics signals that can be uniquely probed in the forward region. FPF experiments will be sensitive to a broad range of BSM physics through searches for new particle scattering or decay signatures and deviations from SM expectations in high statistics analyses with TeV neutrinos in this low-background environment. High statistics neutrino detection will also provide valuable data for fundamental topics in perturbative and non-perturbative QCD and in weak interactions. Experiments at the FPF will enable synergies between forward particle production at the LHC and astroparticle physics to be exploited. We report here on these physics topics, on infrastructure, detector, and simulation studies, and on future directions to realize the FPF's physics potential

The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC

International audienceHigh energy collisions at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produce a large number of particles along the beam collision axis, outside of the acceptance of existing LHC experiments. The proposed Forward Physics Facility (FPF), to be located several hundred meters from the ATLAS interaction point and shielded by concrete and rock, will host a suite of experiments to probe Standard Model (SM) processes and search for physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM). In this report, we review the status of the civil engineering plans and the experiments to explore the diverse physics signals that can be uniquely probed in the forward region. FPF experiments will be sensitive to a broad range of BSM physics through searches for new particle scattering or decay signatures and deviations from SM expectations in high statistics analyses with TeV neutrinos in this low-background environment. High statistics neutrino detection will also provide valuable data for fundamental topics in perturbative and non-perturbative QCD and in weak interactions. Experiments at the FPF will enable synergies between forward particle production at the LHC and astroparticle physics to be exploited. We report here on these physics topics, on infrastructure, detector, and simulation studies, and on future directions to realize the FPF's physics potential