Don’t forget that there are two Brown Bag Lunch events left for this academic year:
This Thursday, March 22nd, students from the first year of the MA-Creative Writing program will be presenting their work in the MA-CW Showcase. In the first hour, students in the first year of the MA Creative Writing program will read stories, excerpts, or poems which they are currently working on. The second hour will include a Q&A and a reception with snacks and coffee. Please join us for what is sure to be a wonderful event!
Next Thursday, March 29th, Professor Larry Switzky will be giving a talk entitled “Bad Beckett?”: This talk examines Samuel Beckett’s reputation as a bad theatrical collaborator and his later plays as a calculated refusal of the stage director and the twentieth-century division of theatrical labour more broadly. By harvesting music, painting, sculpture, and the (relatively) new media of radio, film, and television as models for dramatic notation, Beckett launched a radical inquiry into what a play-text is and who gets to author its sensuous materialization. Examples from orchestration, the visual arts, and the history of opera will situate the recalcitrant inventiveness of Beckett’s scenic writing.
Both of these events will begin at 12 p.m. in JHB 719. We hope to see lots of you there!