In this course we explore one of the great elegiac novels of the mid-twentieth century, The Go-Between. This is the story of thirteen year old, Leo Colston, an outsider 'adopted' by a wealthy family, spellbound by their glamorous lifestyle, yet also exposed to unsuspected worlds of pain, conflict and loss. We will explore the ways […]

A school room in an English country house in the early years of the nineteenth century; the same school room, in the last years of the twentieth century. Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is a dizzying, exhilarating waltz across time, mixing farce, philosophy and flirtation as a pair of bickering academics attempt to discover the truth about whether Lord […]

A school room in an English country house in the early years of the nineteenth century; the same school room, in the last years of the twentieth century. Tom Stoppard's Arcadia is a dizzying, exhilarating waltz across time, mixing farce, philosophy and flirtation as a pair of bickering academics attempt to discover the truth about whether Lord […]