Is death beyond words? How can we understand and live with its invevitability? A theatrical journey through contemporary languages and experiences of mortality and death.
Developing the creative collaboration between Dr Laura Davies and Menagerie Theatre Company (https://good-death.english.cam.ac.uk/collab/) this is a curated performance of fictional encounters with death. It draws on Dr Davies' research into the history of death writing and explores how we imagine death, dying and being dead from our perspective of life, living and being alive.
Recommended age: 15+
This pre-filmed event will be available on demand on the University YouTube channel from 27 March. Further details available on The Cambridge Festival 2021 website from 22 February: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/
The Cambridge Festival, which replaces the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, will host an extensive series of free, online events between 26 March and 4 April this year.
