Lisa Jones is on a journey. It’s a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in – Dissocia – are a curious blend of the funny, the friendly and the brutal.
#CSSDDissocia
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a riot of passion, music and dance, exploring love and relationships, appearance and reality, and the essential nature of the power of imagination.
#CSSDDream
This lecture examines the representational choices made in neo-Victorian life-writing in reconstructing and re-imagining a historical case of transgender: James Barry, Senior Colonial Medical Officer of the British army from 1813 to 1859. Speaker: Professor Ann Heilmann
(Cardiff University)
Adapted from Pedro Almodóvar’s multi award-winning film, Samuel Adamson’s play follows Manuela, a frustrated actress who has tragically lost her son in a car accident.
#CSSDAllAboutMyMother
Set in the trendy bars, offices and galleries of contemporary London, in fast moving snapshots, Simon Bowen’s first full length play is a brilliant exploration of the nature of freedom.
#CSSDFree
Europe in crisis, the stock market on the verge of collapse, foreigners mistrusted, paranoia rife. Amid the fizz, frenzy and frolics, some guests just want to be alone.
#CSSDGrandHotel
Narges Hashempour, scholar, actress, director, writer, curator and dramaturge, compares two historical periods of ‘theatrical interweaving’ in Iran’s modern theatre history.
Based on Alain Mabanckou’s novel, this is ten-year-old Michel’s exuberant eye witness account of growing up in 1970s Pointe Noire, Congo.
#CSSDTwenty
Inspired by Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s remarkable novel, this story follows Korin, an archivist from Hungary, as he embarks on a mission to the centre of the world - New York.
#CSSDWarAndWar
Based on Paulo Coelho’s novel The Alchemist, Maktub is the story of Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd who pursues a dream that takes him on an epic journey across a war-torn desert.
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