Professor David Peimer
The Great Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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Summary
Bedridden for lengthy periods with polio as a child, Francis Ford Coppola went on to receive five Academy Awards and many other prestigious awards for masterpieces like Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Godfather (1972). Stanley Kubrick called the film “possibly the greatest movie ever made with the best ever cast.” In this presentation we will explore why and how his movies remain brilliant, thrilling, and deeply moving.
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.