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 (218)
Date
Title
4 January
Jewish Identity and the Marx Brothers
11 January
Marco Polo in Film: The First Great Adventurer to the East
18 January
Genghis Khan: “Man of the Millennium’’ (Washington Post) in History and Film
25 January
Portrayals of the Holocaust in Film
1 February
'55 Days at Peking': Colonialism, Controversy, Contemporary?