Lectures by Professor Nicholas Ridout (Queen Mary University, London, UK)

THS Visiting Professor for Semester 1

Academic year 2018–19

Nicholas Ridout studied at Cambridge University and has a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. He is currently Professor of Theatre at Queen Mary University of London, where he has taught since 2002. He is the author of Stage Fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Theatre & Ethics (Palgrave, 2009) and Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism and Love (Michigan, 2013). He is the co-author, with Claudia Castellucci, Romeo Castellucci, Chiara Guidi and Joe Kelleher, of The Theatre of Societas Raffaello Sanzio (Routledge 2007) and co-editor, with Joe Kelleher, of Contemporary Theatres in Europe (Routledge, 2006). He is the editor of Theatre Survey, and co-editor, with Patrick Anderson, of the book series Performance Works at Northwestern University Press.  

Lecture schedule

Tuesday 27 November 2018

15:00–17:00

Session 1 (SPA Research Seminar Session)

Scenes from Bourgeois Life: The Spectator

Venue: MP101

Wednesday 28 November 2018

10:00–12:00 

Session 2 (Lecture)

Complex Smoking: Brecht, Tobacco and Philosophy

Venue: OH105

Thursday 29 November 2018

10:00–12:00 (Lecture)

Session 3 (Lecture)

‘The reader will remember’: Beckett and the Text on Stage

Venue: LC117