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.
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Lecture Theatre: Encounters with Slapstick and Sympathy – Wednesday 19th & Thursday 20th November 2025
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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Performance Art of Elaine Mitchener – Wednesday 3rd December 2025
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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Poetry of Jay Wright – Monday 24th November 2025
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 […]
Continue ReadingStaging the Middle Ages: Open Mic & Performance of The Book of Margery Kempe – Friday 7th November
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 […]
Continue ReadingWhose Moral is it Anyway? Developing Medieval Drama Today: Performance Workshop – 17th October 2025
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 […]
Continue ReadingTelling Stories from Medieval England and Ireland with Debbie Cannon and Lara McClure – Thursday 16th October 2025
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 […]
Continue ReadingEco-Macbeth workshop with Prof Theo Black – Wednesday 15th October 2025
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 […]
Continue ReadingSymposium on the life and works of Joseph Macleod – Saturday 5th July 2025
Please note that this event will now be taking place in Room GR06 (Faculty of English).
Continue ReadingPoetry Reading with Kathryn Scanlan, Jigisha Bhattacharya, Idil Tekin – Wednesday 11th June 2025
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.
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