Samson Agonistes 24th October 2018


Presented by The Marlowe Society, Wednesday 24 October 2018, 7-10pm

Judith E Wilson Studio, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

 

SAMSON:
I praise the poetry of ‘stony wastes’,
I praise the poetry of lush spaces,
I praise the poetry of difference,
I praise poetry of co-existence.



Samson Agonistes is a brand new verse play by John Kinsella, rebounding from the Milton original, which interacts with themes of modern warfare, identity, and the knotty tragedies of global international politics. Kinsella describes the play as a pacifist text, and dedicates it to “Israel and Palestine and lasting peace and equality in all things”.

This will be the first ever performance of the new play.    

Free tickets available from: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/samson-agonistes-tickets

 

John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books whose many prizes and awards include The Grace Leven Poetry Prize, the John Bray Award for Poetry from The Adelaide Festival, The Age Poetry Book of The Year Award, The Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Poetry (three times), a Young Australian Creative Fellowship from the former PM of Australia, Paul Keating, and senior Fellowships from the Literature Board of The Australia Council. John Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and was appointed the Richard L Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College in the United States for 2001, where he is now Professor of English. He is also Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, where he is a Principal of the Landscape and Language Centre. His work has been or is being translated into many languages, including French, German, Chinese, Dutch, Spanish, and Russian.