Faculty of English

  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 […]

Conversations with Myself: Mask Workshop   Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP From 9am until 7pm Masking is perhaps unfamiliar to both the thespians and the audiences in Cambridge, and it deserves more exploration as one of the most ancient and universal forms of Theatre.        This workshop […]

International Theatre Festival presents… Mozart and Salieri: a Little Tragedy By Alexander Pushkin 18:00, Sat 26th January 2019 at Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio   “There is no justice on earth, they say… but there is none in heaven either.”     Before Milos Forman’s film, before Peter Shaffer’s play, there was Pushkin’s Mozart and […]

Please join us this Thursday (24th) at 18:30 in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio for Karaoke for Samuel Beckett, a performance lecture on Beckett’s later work, followed by a seminar-style discussion from 19:30. Everyone welcome to join—undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and others. And do feel free to circulate to anyone else who may be interested.  If you’d like to stick around for […]

‘Re – As an Embodied Practice (Workshop) 23 January 2019, 16:00 – 18:00 ~ Judith E. Wilson Studio, Faculty of English, 9 West Road Sophie Seita (Cambridge/New York) Peter McMurray (Ethnomusicologist, Saxophonist, and Media Artist. Music, Cambridge) Claudia Tobin (Leverhulme Fellow, and curator at the Royal Drawing School. Art History, English, Cambridge) Emma Attwood (Theatremaker […]

7pm •  Judith E Wilson Drama Studio • Faculty of English • 9 West Road •  Cambridge •  CB3 9DP iHamlet is an immersive digital reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is a CGI flesh rodeo.  It is one thousand reeking i-Pods, rotting in the evacuated skull of a visionary tech billionaire. It is Idiots strutting towards their own built-in obsolescence, accompanied by the […]