These workshops will establish questions about the treatment of key formal properties of performance — physicality, space, the relationship of individual to group — and their relationship to psychopathological states.
Workshop Two: Fantasy and Possession
Masterclass with opera director Rosalind Parker and soprano Zoe Challenor, unfolding Schoenberg's 'Pierrot Lunaire', an opera which explores the 'fanatical' Pierrot's possession by the moon.
Response:
Femi Oyebode - a professor of psychiatry and a poet, Femi is the author of 'Mindreadings: Literature and Psychiatry, Madness and Theatre', several volumes of poetry, as well as 'Sims' Symptoms of the Mind', described as 'the leading introductory textbook on clinical psychopathology'.
All welcome: feel free to turn up on the day. But for more information and to join the mailing list, please email irb23@cam.ac.uk.
