Janet Suzman to speak on Toleration
Posted on 9 November 1999
The annual Morrell lecture is intended to make a contribution to thought on the subject of toleration. Previous speakers include Lord Scarman, Baroness Warnock, Sir Edward Heath, Dr George Carey, Helena Kennedy QC, and Rabbi Julia Neuberger.
Janet Suzman was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for a decade. She now pursues a freelance career as both an actor and director on stage, in television, and in films. Winner of two Evening Standard Awards, and an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe nominee, her many film and television credits include Nicholas and Alexandra, The Draughtsman's Contract, A Dry White Season, Hedda Gabler, Mountbatten - Last Viceroy of India, and The Singing Detective.
South African born, Janet Suzman has been involved in South African politics and in 1987 she directed the first black Othello in South Africa. In 1996 she adapted Brecht's Good Woman of Szechuan as The Good Woman of Sharkville for the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. In 1997 she took Checkov's The Cherry Orchard to the same theatre. Both were greeted with critical acclaim not least for the sensitivity and intelligence with which Suzman adapted them for post Apartheid South Africa. This summer she took part in a voter education tour in South Africa organized by the satirist Pieter Dirk Uyrs.
The lecture will be given in P/X001 in the Physics/Electronics Building at 8pm on Thursday 18 November. Members of the public are welcome to attend; admission is free.