The virtual launch of a special issue of Theatre Researchin Canada titled “Age and Performance: Expanding Intersectionality” Volume 42 Issue 2, 2021 is to be held on November 19, at 4:00 - 5:30 pm (EST), on Zoom as part of the NANAS Online Symposium: Contested Language and the Study of Later Life.

The virtual panel discussion will feature a Welcome from our Editors, followed by Positioning the Special Issue notes from Kim Solga (General Editor) and Valerie Barnes Lipscomb (author of our foreward). A Discussion of the Cover Image Production: Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill will be presented by Kathryn Bracht (Director) and Tanja Dixon-Warren (Artistic Director of Western Gold Theatre and actor on the Issue Cover). 

Julia Henderson, Benjamin Gillespie, and Núria Casado-Gual (Guest Editors) will then introduce the issue. A facilitated discussion with the authors will follow, featuring Kathryn Bracht, Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, Tania Gigliotti, Catherine Grech, Nevena Martinović, Dayna McLeod, Jayna Mees, Robert Motum, Marlis Schweitzer, Shelley Scott, Lib Spry, and Leah Tidey.

The Launch will finish with a Question and Answer period with the audience.