'Fringe Benefits Theatre Company’ presents the Irish Premiere of Arthur Miller’s ‘Incident at Vichy’
4Th 5th 6th of November 2010 at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
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The discussion will be facilitated by
Malachi O’ Doherty
Saturday 6th November
Crescent Arts Centre
5-6pm. Admission £1 at the door.
And don’t forget to come see the show at 8pm!
The Panel: Malachi O'Doherty, well-known and respected freelance writer, broadcaster and journalist; Professor David Johnston, Head Of School of Languages, literatures and Performing Arts at Queens University Belfast; Dr Phillip McGowan Senior Lecturer in American Literature at QUB with interest in 20th Century American poetry and fiction & Sheena Black Head of Drama at Lagan College.
Professor David Johnston works at Queens University Belfast. He works in Spanish and Translation Theory, and is a multi-award winning translator for the stage, having written versions of over 30 plays from Europe and Latin America. He won the Observer Special Award for Achievement in Theatre, and has worked closely with the BBC, RSC and London's Gate Theatre. He recently adapted Moliere's The Miser for the Lyric Theatre Belfast.
Dr Phillip McGowan is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at QUB with interest in 20th Century American poetry and fiction. He is vice - chair of the Irish Association of American Studies and is currently working on a study of Las Vegas.
Malachi O' Doherty is a well known and respected freelance writer and broadcaster, based in Belfast. He is author of five books, his most recent publication being Under His Roof (2009). Malachi has been a long running and forthright commentator on many local politics shows including Talkback and Hearts and Minds. He is widely published in The Irish Times, the Observer, The Guardian - and a regular contributor to the Belfast Telegraph.
Sheena Black is the Head of Drama at Lagan Integrated College Belfast. She trained at Stranmillis and the Guildhall school of Music and Drama in London.
She has tutored Devised Theatre with Army Recruits in a unique course at St
Patrick’s Barracks, Ballymena; inspired the first N. Irish Shakespeare
Training course for teachers that was led by the Royal Shakespeare Company
and set up Arts Focus, the first Theatre- Skills-for-Business Training Company, funded by LEDU. Sheena co-directed a student production of ‘The Pilgrimage’, a political allegory, which was performed for MLA’s in the Long Gallery at Stormont – in promenade style, much to their surprise! Incident at Vichy, for Sheena, brings back into sharp focus the experiences that her Jewish movement teacher, Helen Lewis, was subjected to, under the Nazi regime in WWII.
4Th 5th 6th of November 2010 at the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
&
'From Miller to Vichy and Beyond.’
A Lively panel /audience discussion – on the work of Arthur Miller, Vichy France and the particular relevance of this work to the world we live in today.
The discussion will be facilitated by
Malachi O’ Doherty
Saturday 6th November
Crescent Arts Centre
5-6pm. Admission £1 at the door.
And don’t forget to come see the show at 8pm!
The Panel: Malachi O'Doherty, well-known and respected freelance writer, broadcaster and journalist; Professor David Johnston, Head Of School of Languages, literatures and Performing Arts at Queens University Belfast; Dr Phillip McGowan Senior Lecturer in American Literature at QUB with interest in 20th Century American poetry and fiction & Sheena Black Head of Drama at Lagan College.
Professor David Johnston
Professor David Johnston works at Queens University Belfast. He works in Spanish and Translation Theory, and is a multi-award winning translator for the stage, having written versions of over 30 plays from Europe and Latin America. He won the Observer Special Award for Achievement in Theatre, and has worked closely with the BBC, RSC and London's Gate Theatre. He recently adapted Moliere's The Miser for the Lyric Theatre Belfast.
Dr Phillip McGowan
Dr Phillip McGowan is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at QUB with interest in 20th Century American poetry and fiction. He is vice - chair of the Irish Association of American Studies and is currently working on a study of Las Vegas.
Malachi O'Doherty
Malachi O' Doherty is a well known and respected freelance writer and broadcaster, based in Belfast. He is author of five books, his most recent publication being Under His Roof (2009). Malachi has been a long running and forthright commentator on many local politics shows including Talkback and Hearts and Minds. He is widely published in The Irish Times, the Observer, The Guardian - and a regular contributor to the Belfast Telegraph.
Sheena Black
Sheena Black is the Head of Drama at Lagan Integrated College Belfast. She trained at Stranmillis and the Guildhall school of Music and Drama in London.
She has tutored Devised Theatre with Army Recruits in a unique course at St
Patrick’s Barracks, Ballymena; inspired the first N. Irish Shakespeare
Training course for teachers that was led by the Royal Shakespeare Company
and set up Arts Focus, the first Theatre- Skills-for-Business Training Company, funded by LEDU. Sheena co-directed a student production of ‘The Pilgrimage’, a political allegory, which was performed for MLA’s in the Long Gallery at Stormont – in promenade style, much to their surprise! Incident at Vichy, for Sheena, brings back into sharp focus the experiences that her Jewish movement teacher, Helen Lewis, was subjected to, under the Nazi regime in WWII.