Anglia Ruskin University

The Mumford Theatre is pleased to present a series of pre-show talks this season by some of Anglia Ruskin University's leading academics.

All of the talks take place in the Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB), close to the Mumford Theatre.

Everyone is welcome and attendance is free. You do not have to have tickets for the performance at 7.30pm, although there will be an opportunity to buy tickets after the talk should you wish to.

Spring Awakening

Monday 25 February
with Dr Nigel Ward, Senior Lecturer in Drama
6.30-7.00pm, LAB 002

A landmark in modern theatre. History play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind.

Dr Ward's research interests include theatre directing, intercultural performance, digital performance and the work of Antonin Artaud.

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The Woyzeck

Tuesday 12 March
with Dr Eirini Kartsaki, Senior Lecturer in Drama and Dr Amanda Price, Senior Lecturer in Performing Arts
6.30-7.00pm, LAB 002

A seminal work from Germany by Georg Büchner.

Dr Kartsaki's research focuses on repetition in contemporary performance and live art and the ways in which performance perpetually promises something that never actually takes place.

Dr Price's practice-based research is collaborative (with Mary Steadman, Bath Spa University) and its aim is to excavate that which is unspoken, silenced, and transgressive in the experience of being a woman in the contemporary world, with particular attention given to the construction of gendered performance and female sexual fantasy.

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Michelangelo Drawing Blood

Tuesday 7 May
with Chris Owen, Head of Department, Cambridge School of Art
6.30-7.00pm, LAB 002

Why do Michelangelo's drawings still retain their power and influence in the 21st century?

Chris Owen studied History of Art at the University of Cambridge before embarking on a career teaching Art and Design History in Art Schools in the UK, including Leeds College of Art and the University of Derby. He also researches in the history and pedagogy of Art and Design Education.

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Four Farces

Thursday 30 May
with Professor Rohan McWilliam, Professor of Modern British History
6.30-7.00pm, LAB 003

One-act farces from the Victorian stage.

Professor McWilliam is an expert in the field of Victorian culture and politics. In 2012 he was made President of the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS), the leading organisation of scholars devoted to the study of nineteenth-century Britain. A social and political historian interested in all aspects of popular politics and popular culture his research includes Toryism, radicalism, images of Victorian needlewomen, popular literature, bohemianism, class analysis and film and history.

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Emily Wilding Davison: the one who threw herself under the horse

Wednesday 5 June
with Professor Mary Joannou, Professor of Literary History and Women's Writing
6.30-7.00pm, LAB 003

A new play about this extraordinary, enigmatic suffragette's life and death.

Mary is a specialist in early twentieth-century, late Victorian, and contemporary women's writing. Her latest book is 'Women's Writing, Englishness, National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice 1938-1960'. Her first monograph, 'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows: Women's Writing,
Feminism and Social Change 1918-1938', was on the Choice (USA) list of outstanding academic books for 1995.

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