Professor David Peimer
Cry, the Beloved Country
Summary
Alan Paton’s “Cry, the Beloved Country” is regarded as one the finest South African novels. In this talk, Professor David Peimer asks, what makes this deceptively simple story a remarkable novel for the ages and not a sentimental work?
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.