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LIVE AT KINGS PLACE
SUN 5 MAR 12.30–13.30
John Lahr & Nicholas Hytner on Arthur Miller
Sponsored by Kennedy Leigh Charitable Trust
John Lahr | Chair: Nicholas Hytner
Arthur Miller almost single-handedly propelled 20th Century
American Theatre to a new level of cultural sophistication, with
plays including Death of a Salesman and All My Sons. Distinguished
New Yorker theatre critic John Lahr focuses on the fault lines of
Miller’s life – his family, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism,
Elia Kazan and the House Committee of Un-American Activities,
Marilyn Monroe, Vietnam – demonstrating the synergy between
Miller’s psychology and his plays. In conversation with acclaimed
director Nicholas Hytner, who worked with Miller on the film
version of The Crucible.
H1
12.30-13.30
£18.50
Mizrahi and Sephardi Voices
Sponsored by Dangoor Education
Henry Green, Richard Stursberg, Hen Mazzig | Chair: Lyn Julius
Almost a million Jews fled their ancestral homelands following the
founding of the State of Israel; Henry Green & Richard Stursberg
trace their journeys in the wide-ranging yet intimate Sephardi
Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands. In The Wrong
Kind of Jew: A Mizrahi Manifesto Hen Mazzig catalogues the Jewish
population of the Middle East and North Africa, their history and the
voices, arguing that while they fail to meet the expectations of both
the Jewish and non-Jewish world they are better for it. They join
Harifa co-founder and Uprooted author Lyn Julius in conversation.
H2
12.30-13.30
£15
Short Stories/Tall Tales
Leon Craig, A. M. Moskovitz
Two of today’s most exciting British-Jewish writers join us with their
extraordinary first fiction collections.
Parallel Hells is the deliciously strange debut from TLS contributor
Leon Craig, drawing on folklore in refreshing ways, as we meet a
golem, a bitter Oxford historian and an ancient being who feasts on
the shame of contemporary Londoners. Adam Ferner’s non-fiction
includes Think Differently: Philosophy for Modern Life and How to
Disagree; now writing as A.M. Moskovitz he uses the horror short
story form to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy
and academia in Notes From the Crawl Room.
StP
12.30-13.30
£9.50
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