Professor David Peimer
About Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
David’s lectures (201)
Date
Title
8 January
The End of the Past: Is the Enlightenment a Mirage?
15 January
The End of Enlightenment and Rationality?
22 January
Freud: Ideas for the 21st Century
29 January
Freud and Jung: Two Giants Too Big for Their World
5 February
Zurich in 1914: An Artistic and Political Explosion
12 February
WWI Poetry
19 February
WWI Film
26 February
Innovations in Czech Theatre
5 March
Kafka’s Circle
12 March
Portrait of Evil, Part 1: Hitler in Film
19 March
Brecht and Weill: Remarkable Theatre, Songs, and Poetry
26 March
Václav Havel: A Hero for Our Time: Playwright, Prisoner, and President
2 April
Freedom Poets and Songsters: Bob Dylan
9 April
Inglorious Basterds: The Revenge Fantasy
30 April
The Cult of Horror: Dybbuk and Golem
7 May
Portrayal of Jesus in Film
14 May
Eisenstein: His Life and Works, Including Extracts From Ivan the Terrible and Battleship Potemkin
21 May
Alexander Pushkin: 1799-1837
31 May
Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
4 June
Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
11 June
Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov
18 June
Nikolai Gogol and <i>The Inspector General</i>
25 June
Anton Chekhov and the Birth of Poetry in Modern Theater
2 July
Konstantin Stanislavski, Part 1: His Method
9 July
Konstantin Stanislavski, Part 2: Creative Techniques Used by Actors and Directors
16 July
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Part 1
23 July
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Part 2
30 July
Yevgeny Yevtushenko and His Poem "Babi Yar"
7 August
Neil Simon’s <i>The Odd Couple</i>
14 August
Elvis: The King of Rock ’n’ Roll
28 August
Woody Allen: The Eternal Nebich
10 September
A Grandchild of Lithuania: Leonard Cohen
17 September
Some Like It Hot: The Genius of Billy Wilder
22 September
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Forgiveness, Justice, and Revenge
24 September
"Copenhagen", A Play by Michael Frayn: Time to Reflect
1 October
King Lear: A Parable of Loss and Forgiveness
8 October
Julius Caesar: Conqueror of Gaul
15 October
Homer's Odyssey: The Foundation of Western Literature and the Greatest Story Ever Told
22 October
Medieval Epics in Cinema
29 October
Joan of Arc: In Cinema and Theatre
5 November
Shakespeare's Henry V: Great Leadership or Wishful Thinking?
12 November
Molière: The Great French Writer of Comedies and Satires
19 November
Dangerous Liaisons: France, the Novel, and Sexual Politics
26 November
Showing the French Revolution in Theatre: Danton's Death by Buchner and Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss
3 December
Les Misérables: The Musical and the Book by Victor Hugo
10 December
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert's Masterpiece: More than a Novel About the Eternal Love Triangle?
17 December
The Life and Work of Albert Camus: What Makes him so Insightful for us Today?
24 December
An American in Paris