Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
The Future of London Theatre
•
Gresham College
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
John Maynard Keynes was asked how he saw the future and replied "The future is not seen, it is made". However, you cannot make the future when dealing with something conceived out of passion. Thus, the future of London Theatre - whether buildings or productions - cannot be planned because they represent the substance of faith.
So let us examine why drama has never been destroyed and, since early Greek and Roman times, has outlived the very civilisations that produced it...
This is the fourth in a series of four 'Mondays at One' lectures on The Theatre in London.
So let us examine why drama has never been destroyed and, since early Greek and Roman times, has outlived the very civilisations that produced it...
This is the fourth in a series of four 'Mondays at One' lectures on The Theatre in London.