Professor David Peimer
Innovations in Czech Theatre
Summary
Professor David Peimer delves into the not widely known, but rather significant, contributions that the Czech theatre world had on the theatrical art form at large.
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.
He was born in Czechoslovakia, lived in Canada. I would think so. I can’t say definitively, but I think so.
Yes. It’s extraordinary that the Czech theatre creators fought so hard to be a force in theatre and succeeded. It’s no coincidence. And international theatre institute was inaugurated in 1948 in Prague. Absolutely. And you were director of the British chapter for many years.