Name: John Bale's King John
Start: 2019-02-20T19:00:00Z
End: 2019-02-20T21:00:00Z
Location: St Stephen's Church, Canterbury

John Bale's King John

We are a group of academic staff and students from the University of Kent interested in and investigating a range of performance events in Europe,c. 500 toc. 1700. From plays and pageants to poetry and processions, music, liturgy and dance, performance here is broadly conceived and studied from a variety of methodological and historical perspectives, including its place in modern performance practice.

Cultures of Performance, the University of Kent

Returning to St Stephen’s after nearly 500 hundred years, John Bale’s inflammatory play about notorious King John is as controversial as ever. Join the Cultures of Performance research group as we workshop extracts from the play, bringing it back to life, along with some of the atmosphere of Reformation St Stephen’s. Featuring music, architectural projections, and some familiar faces from the community, the performance will explore how the play engages with the parish, Canterbury and Kent as they were in the 1540s and how they are today.
Attendance is free. Refreshments to follow.
Further information: english events@kent.ac.uk or @PerfCulturesUKC
This event is kindly sponsored by the Faculty of Humanities, the School of English, and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent.

St Stephen's Church, Canterbury

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