This specially commissioned new work, compiled and directed by theatre-maker Mia Hull and supported by the English Faculty’s Judith E. Wilson Practice-as-Research Fund, stages an all-female (re)enactment of a Grave-Diggers Society playreading on the site of the Isherwood in Cambridge exhibition. But as the group reads its selected play—W.H. Auden and Isherwood’s campy The Ascent of F6 about a group of men racing up a mountain to stop an imperialist war—it triggers an examination of where their leader’s power stems from and whom Isherwood wants to align himself with: the Cambridge society of his classmates or the surrealist world he has created with his friend Edward Upward? This experimental piece is a meditation on historical reenactment, the nature of play readings, and what radical tenderness amongst schoolfellows looks like.
For booking please use the following link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-the-good-place-christopher-the-grave-diggers-tickets-887241241437
Suitable for ages: 12+ years. Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.
Content warnings: death and colonial violence. For more details, contact ed621@cam.ac.uk
Presented by the Judith E. Wilson Fund
With additional funding from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
