4 may 2022   Who's the Dupe?             

Hannah Cowley's Who’s the Dupe? (1779)

A script-in-hand performance
St. Hugh's College, Oxford

4 May 2022, 5.30pm

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A cast of professional actors will mount a script-in-hand performance of Hannah Cowley's riotous 2-act farce, having spent the day rehearsing the play. 

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Directed by Colin Blumenau. Produced by Creation Theatre.

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Read more about this event here.

Book your free ticket HERE.

8-9 Sept. 2022   inchbald conference         

Elizabeth Inchbald: A Bicentennial Conference

St. Hugh's College, Oxford

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2021 marks the bicentenary of the death of actress, playwright, novelist, and editor, Elizabeth Inchbald, whose plays are among the most popular of the final decades of the eighteenth century. This two-day conference will consider Inchbald’s work and legacy, both of which remain profoundly undervalued and understudied. The conference will include a professional, script-in-hand performance of Inchbald’s farce, Animal Magnetism (1788).

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Registration and programme information here. 

27-28 Oct. 2022   Newberry symposium         

R/18: Re-Activating the Repertoire - A Two-Day Symposium for Researchers, Practitioners, and Producers

Newberry Library, Chicago 

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This symposium will bring together theatre historians, musicologists, and members of the performance studies community with actors, designers, musicians, artistic directors, and producers to discuss the import and viability of works from the Restoration, eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. ​ More information will be available from the Newberry closer to the event.