This improvised evening session will be centred on the idea of “catastrophe”. Open to the public, featuring readings of both newly created and canonical texts, audience members are invited to bring short texts / poems / songs that respond to the topic. Central to the evening will be poet and professor D.S Marriott (Emory […]

What forms might alternative archiving take? If archives traditionally comprise paper artifacts, what of performance? How, in other words, might we reconceptualise archival embodiment? Inviting responses to these questions, this event will feature performances by poets, curators and arts practitioners who each work with difficult and unwieldy archives in their practices: Remi Graves, Naomi Pearce, […]

  The drama studio is located in the basement of the Faculty of English and is accessible via the Faculty lift or a stairwell. Please do not attend if experiencing cold-like symptoms.    

Lecture Theatre:  Encounters with Slapstick and Sympathy       Judith E Wilson Drama Studio Faculty of English West Road, CB3 9DP       These lectures will examine the means by which dramatists test the bodies of others for variously comic, tragic, traumatic and/or traumatising effects.   In concert with the performer Meg Lewis, Ian […]

    A performance followed by a discussion with Jay Bernard     Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation and visual art. Her work is challenging and direct, bringing a subtle London edge to Black avant-garde traditions stemming from Europe, the Caribbean and America. Core to […]

  Monday 24th November 2025 – 6:30pm to 8pm Judith E Wilson Studio, Faculty of English 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP   Poets Dante Micheaux and Oluwaseun Olayiwola join Judith E Wilson Fellow Jay Bernard for a reading and discussion of Jay Wright’s collected poems, Transfigurations.   Jay Wright is one of the foremost living […]

    Friday 7th November 2025   Judith E Wilson Drama Studio Faculty of English West Road CB3 9DP   6pm – Medieval Open Mic   8pm – The Book of Margery Kempe   The drama studio is located in the basement of the Faculty of English and is accessible via the Faculty lift or a […]

  Whose Moral is it Anyway? Developing Medieval Drama Today Performance Workshop with Rob Crighton    7:00 – 8:30pm Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio Faculty of English, West Road CB3 9DP     Rob Crighton from Beyond Shakespeare will be leading a performance workshop on the Castle of Perseverance and how we handle the moral […]

  Telling Stories from Medieval England and Ireland ‘Green Knight’ (Debbie Cannon) and ‘Oral Tradition: Iron Age Ulster in the 11th-Century imagination’ (Lara McClure)   Thursday 16th October 2025  5.15pm – 7pm   Doors at 4.55pm Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English 9 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DP   The Medieval Ideas Creative Lab […]

                    Eco-Macbeth Performance Workshop with Prof Theo Black   Wednesday 15 October 2025 Judith E Wilson drama studio, 2-4pm   This interactive session will investigate the classical elements within Macbeth. Exploring how air, water, earth, and fire animate human characters and shape-shift within Shakespeare’s textual ecosystem […]