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LIVE AT KINGS PLACE
SUN 5 MAR 18.30–19.30
The Marx Brothers: From Vaudeville to Israel
Robert S. Bader
Like many children of 19th century Jewish immigrants, as each
Marx brother celebrated his Barmitzvah their formal education was
replaced by life on the stage. Non-religious, they fiercely embraced
their Jewish identity in the face of rampant antisemitism. And late
in life, Harpo in particular unexpectedly, profoundly connected with
Judaism during an emotional trip to Israel in 1963.
Robert Bader - author of Four of the Three Musketeers, Susan
Fleming Marx’s co-author for Speaking of Harpo and director of
Groucho & Cavett – joins us for a night at Kings Place.
H1
18.30-19.30
£18.50
Pressburger and Pearls
In Association with the TLS
Kevin Macdonald, Anthony Quinn | Chair: Toby Lichtig
With A Matter of Life & Death, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes,
Pressburger and Powell changed the face of cinema. Emeric
Pressburger also wrote two novels; The Glass Pearls, a post-war
thriller about a mysterious German émigré, was reissued by Faber
last year to acclaim. Here his grandson Kevin Macdonald, the
Oscar-winning director of One Day in September and The Last King
of Scotland, joins critic and novelist Anthony Quinn and TLS fiction
editor Toby Lichtig to discuss his life and work on screen and page.
H2
18.30-19.30
£15
The Life Fantastic: Myth, Pop & Folklore
Noa Manheim | Chair: Alan Dein
Western culture as you’ve never seen it before. In a series of mindblowing essays, critic and broadcaster Noa Manheim digs down to
the roots of stories, myths and literary genres, travelling from art to
politics to history to folklore, and from high to popular culture and
back again. Through an intricate web of sidenotes, she embarks on
a voyage of discovery from the unluckiest book ever made to Viking
horned helmets, via the sex life of vampires, mermaids frolicking in
the margins, the ancient Amazons, the power of Amazon and on
to Utopia and Atlantis. In conversation with broadcaster and oral
historian Alan Dein.
StP
18.30-19.30
£9.50
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