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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Public Lecture: Freddie Rokem: Reading Kafka/Staging Kafka
 
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DESCRIPTION:****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED****\n\nThe lecture is part 
 of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It
  is co-organised by CIDRAL\, LIS\, German Studies\, Drama and the Centre
  for Jewish Studies.\n\nReading Kafka/Staging Kafka\n\nWalter Benjamin's
  interpretation of Franz Kafka's work\, published on the tenth anniversa
 ry of Kafka's death in 1934\, is in part based on Benjamin's understandi
 ng of Brecht's ideas and practices of the theatre. And in reverse\, in h
 is answer to the question "What is Epic Theatre?" published five years l
 ater\, Benjamin introduces the interruption which is more Kafkaesque tha
 n Brechtian. My presentation will explore what this strange interaction 
 between Kafka and Brecht as mediated through the texts of Benjamin means
 \; and how it has influenced two Israeli productions based on Kafka's te
 xts.\n\nFreddie Rokem is Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Theat
 re at Tel Aviv University\, where he was the Dean of the Faculty of the 
 Arts (2002-2006) and held the Emanuel Herzikowitz Chair for 19th and 20t
 h Century Art (2006-2016). His more recent books are Philosophers and Th
 espians: Thinking Performance (2010\; translated into Italian and Polish
 \; to appear in German and Hebrew)\; Jews and the Making of Modern Germa
 n Theatre (2010\, co-edited with Jeanette Malkin)\; Strindberg's Secret 
 Codes (2004) and the prize-winning book Performing History: Theatrical R
 epresentations of the Past in Contemporary Theatre (2000\; translated in
 to German and Polish). He was the editor of Theatre Research Internation
 al from 2006-2009\, and is now co-editor of the Palgrave/Macmillan book 
 series Performance Philosophy. He has been a visiting professor at many 
 universities in the United States\, Germany\, Finland and Sweden and is 
 also a dramaturg\, most recently of an Israeli production of Kafka's The
  Trial called "Citizen K." directed by Yael Cramsky\, which premiered in
  December 2015.
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TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:John Thaw Studio Theatre\, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Dr
 ama\, Manchester
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