Kent Area Study Day

Twentieth Century British Theatre: One Hundred Years of Transformation

A study day at Egerton Millennium Hall at 10am for 10.30am, Tuesday May 30th 2017, with Giles Ramsay, an independent theatre director and producer who specialises in creating new work with artists in developing countries. Giles has run many theatre projects around the world and regularly lectures on the history and practice of theatre on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2

In this study-day Giles Ramsay examines how the theatre responded to the extraordinary upheavals of the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Cold War, the Space Race and the Information Revolution and considers how, throughout this age of extremes, the show still went on and continued reflecting our story right up to the present day.

The lectures of the day will be as follows;

The Victorian legacy and the rise of the drawing-room dramas of Noel Coward and Terence Rattigan.
The Post-War revolution and the emergence of the Angry Young Men such as John Osborne and Arnold Wesker.
The 1960's to 2017 - A new Golden Age? From Harold Pinter and Joe Orton to new forms of drama such as Immersive Theatre and The National Theatre Live.

COST: £28.00 per person to include coffee and a light lunch.
Coffee will be served at 10am and the first lecture will start promptly at 10.30am.
There will be two lectures before lunch (with a brief interval in between) and one more after lunch.
The day will finish about 3.15pm.

To book please contact Elaine Graham on 01233 756137 or elainedgraham@btinternet.com 
Booking closes on May 22nd