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Lecture

Professor David Peimer
The Great Gatsby: Capturing an Age: Long Gone or Echo Today?

Saturday 6.01.2024

Summary

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece certainly captures an age; the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age, before the Great Depression and what followed. In this talk David Peimer asks, is this age long gone or does it still echo for us today?

Professor David Peimer

head and shoulders portrait of david peimer looking at camera, smiling

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.