| Welcome to your August newsletter from the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Clearing is now open for those with their exam results to apply and we’d love to hear from those getting results this year on Thursday 17 August from 8am. Register your interest We are sending this early to avoid the UCAS embargo period where we can’t contact you. Please do get in touch with us if you have any queries. We are around all summer. Apply in August BA Degrees including English if you have results via Clearing to our Undergraduate programmes Get the lowdown MA Programmes Last Chance to apply for our MA courses in English Literature, Creative Writing and Theatre and Performance. Talk to us Book a time to chat about your application or campus tour Sign up |
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| August Events |
| QUEEN MARY THEATRE COMPANY AT EDINBURGH FRINGE 14-26 August – theSpace on the Mile Join our talented students for brand new work they have created at the world’s largest arts festival. The four shows are:All the Glorious Moments In BetweenDead End JobPaper WallsPark Bench |
| EVEN MORE SHOWS BY STUDENTS & GRADUATES THIS SUMMER HIGH STEAKS Eloina (Drama Graduate) HIGH STEAKS (pictured above) is a show about labia, labia-shaming, cosmetic surgery and fundamentally, body lovin’. Please do get in touch if you have a show coming up in September that you’d like us to mention. |
| BLOOMSBURY WALKING TOURS WITH MATTHEW INGLEBY Weekends in August 2023 Since the 1800s Bloomsbury has been an ideas factory! So, in these walks, facts always come with ideas. Matt has devised these new walks after 15 years of researching, writing and speaking about the area. Each walk explores a different aspect of Bloomsbury’s intellectual & cultural identity. Let’s think together, on our feet… Highlights coming up:Wartime Bloomsbury – 12 AugMurder in Bloomsbury – 12 AugGreen Bloomsbury – 13 AugQueer Bloomsbury – 19 Aug |
| News & Opportunities |
| ‘Grenfell: in the words of survivors – new play is an angry demand for accountability’ – Maggie Inchley in The Conversation’Grenfell continues the tradition of verbatim theatre as an acute critical and political form that enables the National Theatre to fulfil its unofficial remit for staging “state of the nation” drama.’ Read the article |
| Hannah Silva launches new book written in conversation with AI technologyThe pioneering new book is described as: ‘A living exploration of undoing and redoing queer single parenting and love, in conversation with an AI algorithm and a toddler.’GET A COPY: My Child, the Algorithm is out now: Buy the bookLEARN ABOUT THE PROCESS: Read Hannah’s article for The Bookseller, ‘How – and why – I wrote a book in conversation with generative AI.’INTERACT WITH AI: Footnote Press have trained a GPT algorithm on her book, so readers can generate their own texts, and enter a competition. Learn more & read an article about the marketing campaign |
| Watch online: Brian Dillon & Brandon Taylor: Essay Means ‘To Try’ – Pay What You CanDifficult to define and diverse by its nature, the essay is a slippery form. It requires – according to Brian Dillon – some ‘combination of exactitude and evasion’. Join Dillon, author of a new collection of interlinked essays, Affinities, alongside Booker Prize-shortlisted author, critic, and essayist, Brandon Taylor as they discuss the form, function, and very point of the genre with Michael Williams. Find out more |
| Round upDeven Parker Deven has been awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Glasgow. The project title is ‘Performing Authorship: Theatre, Print, and Intellectual Property, 1774-1833.’ Lois Weaver & Peggy Shaw Peggy and Lois will be attending the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference in Austin Texas were we will receive their 2022 Ellen Stewart Career Achievement in Professional Theatre award and perform Last Gasp, a Recalibration. |
| Opportunities For more opportunities see our regular Opportunities Digest blog post |
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