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The SCUDD Conference this year will be hosted by the University of Lincoln - 26-27 March
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LSE Literary Festival 2010
Theatre of Action?
LSESU Drama Society event
Date: Saturday 13 February 2010
Time: 5-6.30pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Matt Charman, John Caird
Chair: Chris Megson
Theatre has a rich tradition of raising political issues, as evidenced in
LSE founder George Bernard Shaw¹s work. A discussion between a playwright
and director on whether contemporary drama still aims to challenge audiences
will be followed by a performance of extracts by the LSESU Drama Society.
John Caird is a director and writer, working in theatre, opera and musical
theatre. He is an Honorary Associate Director of the RSC. His productions of
Les Misérables and Nicholas Nickleby, both with Trevor Nunn, have won
numerous awards around the world. Recent published work includes a new
version of John Gay's Beggar's Opera with the composer Ilona Sekacz,
Children of Eden with composer Stephen Schwartz, and a musical adaptation of
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre with the composer Paul Gordon. His new book
Theatre Craft: A Director's Practical Companion from A-Z will be published
in March 2010.
Matt Charman is an award-winning playwright. His first play A Night at the
Dogs, won the Verity Bargate Award and was performed at the Soho Theatre in
2005. His second, The Five Wives of Maurice Pinder, premiered at the
Cottesloe, National Theatre in 2007. The Observer directed by Richard Eyre
followed in 2009, also at the Cottesloe. Matt was Pearson Writer in
Residence at the National Theatre through 2008. He is a recipient of a Peggy
Ramsay Award and a winner of the Catherine Johnson Prize.
This event will be accompanied by an online exhibition of historic
photographs from the LSE Library¹s gay liberationist, pacifist and other
collections, showing how activists used drama to campaign for change,
www.lse.ac.uk/library <http://www.lse.ac.uk/library> |.
Ticket Information
All events in the Literary Festival programme are free and open to all, but
a ticket is required. You can request one ticket per person.
Tickets will be available to request from 2pm on Monday 25 January 2010.
Members of the public will be able to request a ticket using the online
ticket request form, available on
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20100213t1700vSZ.aspx#generat
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LSE staff and students will be able to collect a ticket from the SU
Reception, located on the ground floor of the East Building.
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