Unrest swells at the Asylum of Charenton.  After years of confinement Marquis de Sade has been given the liberty to stage one of his plays as a recreational activity for the other inmates. De Sade proceeds to harness the neurotic, exposed energy of his co-patients into a story about the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat […]

The Marlowe Society, (with support from the Judith E Wilson Fund), is absolutely delighted to be giving 80 creative students from Cambridge the chance to experience a weekend of FREE intensive DEVISING and PHYSICALITY workshops with the internationally acclaimed companies Gecko (Friday 15th and) and Punchdrunk Saturday 16th March)!!! This is a brilliant chance for […]

MONDAY 4 MARCH @ 5pm JUDITH E WILSON DRAMA STUDIO FACULTY OF ENGLISH WEST ROAD CAMBRIDGE   MANY APOLOGIES BUT THIS SCREENING HAS  NOW BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THE EASTER TERM. Handsworth Songs is a richly-layered documentary representing the hopes and dreams of post-war black British people in the light of the civil disturbances of the […]

Thursday 28th February 2018 @ 7pm Judith E Wilson Studio, English Faculty, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP   “An ambitious and thought-provoking experiment in charting the fugitive moments that make a life.”   Stevie Davies for The Guardian reviewing Lavinia Greenlaw’s latest book In the City of Love’s Sleep (2018).   Lavinia Greenlaw has published five collections […]

Auditions: 27 February, 8:30-11pm (Judith Wilson Studio) Workshops: 28 February, 10am-3pm, 1 March 5-10pm, 2 March 12-5pm (Judith Wilson Studio) Roundtable with Dr. Jennifer Wallace and Dr. Tim Whitmarsh               1 March 6-7:15pm (Judith Wilson Studio) Staged reading 2 March, 7:30pm (Judith Wilson Studio) Wine reception 2 March, 9pm (Judith Wilson […]

This workshop will take place at The Cambridge Junction. Places are limited – the workshop is free but please book here to ensure a place: https://www.junction.co.uk/decolonising-theatre-conscientious-theatre-training?spektrix_bounce=true   Theatre practitioner and educator, Nicole Brewer (USA), shares her practice of Conscientious Theatre Training. Conscientious Theatre Training (CTT), which she has been running in theatres and universities across […]

  Join us for our first screening of the term! Goran Olsson’s 2014 documentary ‘Concerning Violence’ is based on newly discovered archive material covering Africa’s struggle for liberation from colonial rule in the late ’60s and ’70s, accompanied by text from Frantz Fanon’s ‘The Wretched of the Earth’. Decolonise English is a campaign run voluntarily […]

Film Screening + Discussion: Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-Ho (2013) Tuesday 5th February; 16:00 pm, Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Faculty of English  2031. A failed geo-engineering experiment to solve the global warming problem results in a new Ice Age and mass extinction. Focusing on the connection between climate change and class inequalities, director Bong Joon-Ho is asking us […]

Samuel Beckett’s Dramaturgy Workshops Call for Participants Wednesdays 23 January, 1.30pm-3.30pm Wednesday 30 January, 4pm-6pm Wednesday 6 February, 1.30pm-3.30pm Wednesday 13 February, 1.30pm-3.30pm Wednesday 20 February, 1.30pm-3.30pm Friday 22 February, 2pm-4pm.  Judith E Wilson Drama Studio I should prefer the text not to appear in any form before production and not in book form until […]