Professor David Peimer
About Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
David’s lectures (209)
Date
Title
6 January
The Great Gatsby: Capturing an Age: Long Gone or Echo Today?
13 January
Chaplin, Part 1: Global Icon, Comic Genius, Outsider
20 January
Chaplin, Part 2: Global Icon, Comic Genius, Outsider
27 January
Hollywood and History: Portrayals of Pearl Harbor
3 February
The Beat Generation: Brando, Dean, Kerouac
10 February
Arthur Miller’s "The Crucible"
17 February
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire: The Film, the Play
24 February
The Poetry of Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2 March
Kubrick's Satirical Masterpiece: Dr Strangelove
9 March
The Unravelling of the American Myth: The Theatre of Shepard, Mamet, Albee
16 March
The Films of Kubrick and Tarantino: ''Pulp Fiction,'' Magnificent Myths, Daring Dreams, and Capturing a Culture
24 March
Purim Debate: What is the Key to Jewish Survival?
30 March
How Empires Fascinate and Fade
6 April
The History of Propaganda and the Arts
9 April
The Image of Cleopatra, Caesar and Mark Antony in Film and Theatre
13 April
The Colosseum of Ancient Rome: Much More than Bread and Circuses?
20 April
Portrayals of Jewish Resistance in Film: "Ben-Hur," "Masada," "Bar Kochba"
27 April
Jerusalem in Poetry and Myth
4 May
Image of the Arab in Shakespeare
11 May
Great South African Jazz: Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Vusi Mahlasela
12 May
The Brilliant Wit of Trevor Noah
16 May
A Discussion of Dame Janet Suzman’s Work at The Royal Shakespeare Company and South African Productions of Shakespeare
26 May
The Art and Theatre of William Kentridge
1 June
Dark Humour in the South African Theatre of Reza de Wet and Athol Fugard
6 June
Representations of D-Day in Film: a Re-Imagining or Historically Accurate?
8 June
Khartoum the Film: Colonsiation and its Contradictions
15 June
Lawrence of Arabia, the Film: Colonial Rule and Playing Both Sides
22 June
Gertrude Bell: Radical Influencer of British Imperial Middle Eastern Policy
29 June
Gallipoli (1915): Churchill's Disaster?
6 July
The Generals: Dayan, Rabin, Sharon and Captain Zvi Greengold
13 July
Portrayals of Golda Meir in Film
20 July
Contemporary Israeli TV: ''Fauda” the Series
27 July
Contemporary Israeli Thinkers: Yuval Noah Harari
3 August
Countering the Words: 'Settler, Colonial, Apartheid'
10 August
The Genius of Alfred Hitchcock
17 August
How Great Stories, True or False, Capture Our Minds
24 August
Billie Holiday: One of the True Greats!
29 August
Origins and Ramifications of Woke and Cancel Culture
31 August
The Unique Life and Voice of Frank Sinatra
7 September
The Great Directors: Spielberg, Part 1
14 September
The Great Directors: Spielberg, Part 2
21 September
The Great Directors: Roman Polanski
28 September
The Great Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
5 October
‘God on Trial’: Jewish Prisoners Put God on Trial in Auschwitz
19 October
Joan of Arc in Film and Theatre
26 October
Heroes and Villains in Shakespeare: Lady Macbeth, King Lear, Richard III and Henry V
2 November
Oedipus and Caesar in Theatre and Film: Heroes or Villains? Or Both?
9 November
Napoleon and Hitler in Feature Film
16 November
Nixon and Lincoln on Film: Heroes and Villains?
23 November
Machiavelli: Hero? Villain? Realist? Cynic? Philosopher?
30 November
French Revolutionary Leaders in Film and Theatre: Danton, Robespierre, Marat