Professor David Peimer
Representations of D-Day in Film: a Re-Imagining or Historically Accurate?
Summary
D-Day was one of the most important days in history. How is it represented in film? Inevitably, film makers aim for authenticity through emotional impact, yet their films are fictionalised versions of the past. David Peimer asks, what are the fascinating debates around the dynamics between fictionalised films and their corresponding historical events?
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.