Barbara Kallaur, flute,
John Abberger, oboe,
Christopher
Verrette, violin,
Allison Edberg, violin and viola,
Elizabeth Macdonald, cello and gamba,
Thomas Gerber, harpsichord
ENSEMBLE VOLTAIRE
John Green
Friday, September 19, 2008 at 7.30 PM
Trinity Episcopal Church
3243 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis
Pre-concert discussion at 7 PM
Dr. John Green is Chair and Professor in the Department of Theatre at Butler University. He was born and educated in London, England, and earned his PhD in Theatre from the University of Plymouth.
Dr. Green specializes in teaching Stage Directing, and is a passionate advocate of international and interdisciplinary performance. In 2002 he created the Butler International Theatre Exchange project (BITE), an annual summer program devoted to exploring international performance practice in collaboration with leading theatre artists from around the world.
As a stage director, he has many productions to his credit, which have been presented at the Edinburgh International Festival, and at theatre festivals in England, Wales, France, Germany, Slovenia, Ireland and the United States. He is a Visiting Scholar at Flinders University, New South Wales, Australia, and, locally, has directed for Indianapolis Opera, and several seasons of plays for the Indiana Repertory Theatre.
In 2008-09 Dr. Green will direct the world premiere of After Paul McCartney by David Hoppe at the 2008 Edinburgh International Festival; Phedre by Jean Racine, and Phaedra’s Love by Sarah Kane (under the collective title PHAEDRAPLAYS) for Butler Theatre; a stage adaptation of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment for the IRT; and a series of short plays by Samuel Beckett with Russian actors in St. Petersburg, Russia. In June 2009 Dr. Green will launch International Theatre Indianapolis, an organization dedicated to bringing the best of world theatre to Indianapolis, with his colleague Diane Timmerman.
Musically, Dr. Green has wide-ranging and eclectic tastes, but has a particular fondness for music of the baroque period, and the English Baroque in particular.
