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Centre for East London Studies (CELS) Seminar
Location, Location, Location: Talking about East London as the Setting
for Creative Work
Wednesday 15th March 2017
5 - 7pm
University Square Stratford *, US1.01
Novelist Tessa McWatt and theatre director Dominic Hingorani discuss the role of East London in their recent productions.
Tessa McWatt’s
Higher Ed (2015) follows five characters weaving their different lives in and around East London.
The late John Berger praised
Higher Ed not only for its ‘wonderful narration’ but also for mapping ‘the archipelago’ of London’s east side.
Tessa McWatt
is Professor of Creative Writing, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London.
Dominic Hingorani
is the librettist and director of Clocks 1888: the greener, a new opera which takes the factory clock as its starting point. The opera swings between the mechanisation of working class life in the Victorian East End and the multicultural attempts to
resist this process.
Clocks 1888: the greener
is the first opera in a trilogy under development by Brolly Productions. Described as ‘suitably striking’ (The Stage) and ‘highly emotional’ (The Upcoming), it premiered in Doncaster before playing to packed houses at the Hackney Empire.
Dominic Hingorani is Reader in Theatre and Performance, School of Arts and Digital
Industries, University of East London.
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*University Square Stratford is located at 1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF.
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link.