Professor David Peimer
Lord of the Flies
Summary
Professor David Peimer offers a look at the main ideas of “The Lord of the Flies”, primarily being our propensity for savagery. It’s obvious in the context of war or crimes, but in this lecture he also dives into the psychological savagery and cruelty in the day-to-day world that we all know, that we’ve all done, and that are a part of being human. Additionally, he reflects on the somewhat jarring coincidence of discussing a book like this on the 11th of September and what can be drawn from that.
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.