Saturday 25 June
7.30-9.00am
Breakfast served for those staying at St Hugh’s
Dining Hall
10.00-6.00pm
Official registration period
Maplethorpe Building Canterbury Road Foyer
11.00-3.30pm
Short film screenings
A series of recent short films on Brechtian themes will be screened throughout registration.
China Centre Lecture Theatre
10.30am onwards
Cultural programme sign-up events
10.30-12.30am
Walking tour of Oxford
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 20 participants)
The tour starts at Martyrs’ Memorial at 10.30am and finishes at a bus stop on Magdalen Street, from where delegates can take a bus back to St Hugh’s.
Participants coming from St Hugh’s can meet at the College Lodge at 10.10am, and a student helper will guide them on the bus to the Martyrs’ Memorial.
OR
10.55-11.35am
Audio tour of the Bodleian Library
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 20 participants)
Please meet at the Bodleian Library ticket office by the Great Gate at 10.50.
Alternatively, participants coming from St Hugh’s can meet at the College Lodge at 10.10, and a student helper will guide them on the bus to the library.
1.00-2.30pm
Lunch served
Dining Hall
2.00-4.00pm
International Brecht Society business meeting
Maplethorpe Seminar Room
3.45-5.15pm
Official Welcome over drinks and sandwiches
Maplethorpe Hall
5.15pm
Coaches depart from St Hugh’s to take conference delegates to the North Wall Arts Centre
5.45-6.45pm
Opening keynote: Tony Kushner in conversation with Tom Kuhn
North Wall Arts Centre
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 140 participants)
7.30-9.00pm
Fatzer: Downfall of an Egoist
The North Wall Arts Centre hosts the premiere of a new version of Brecht’s dramatic fragment: Fatzer: Downfall of an Egoist, directed by Di Trevis and Tom Bailey, and produced by Ellie Keel.
North Wall Arts Centre
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 140 participants)
9.15pm
Coaches from the North Wall back to St Hugh’s
8.00-11.30pm
Bar open
Wordsworth Tea Room