Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The real Cleopatra examined by New Generation Thinker Islam Issa plus Ros Barber on Warwickshire words in Shakespeare's verse, two leading neurologists, Suzanne O'Sullivan and Jules Montague explore the intricacies of the brain and the infinite capacity for experience and imagination, the playwright Ella Hickson on her new production in which she explores the personal cost of creative gain and Philip Horne on the notebooks left behind when the novelist Henry James died. Anne McElvoy presents.

Brainstorm by Suzanne O'Sullivan published by Chatto and Windus Lost and Found by Jules Montague published by Sceptre Tales from a Master's Notebook edited by Philip Horne published by Vintage The Writer by Ella Hickson runs at the Almeida Theatre in London from April 14 to May 26. It stars Romola Garai and Samuel West and is directed by Blanche McIntyre.

Producer: Fiona McLean

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0:32.1	Hello, I'm Anne McHawoy.
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0:39.0	bringing together leading artists, writers and thinkers in conversation and debate.
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1:01.1	Today we take a journey through the partially charted map of the brain in the footsteps of
1:06.3	Kejal, the 19th century pathologist who described the grey matter inside our heads
1:11.7	as a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents
1:15.8	and great stretches of unknown territory.
1:19.6	We'll find out why this country singer features in a new Generation Z play
1:24.1	about the difficulty of writing drama that hits home.
1:27.9	It's been a long dark night and I've been waiting for the morning.
1:41.3	It's been a long hard fight, but I see a brand new day dawn end.
1:52.1	The song is heard in Ella Hickson's new play, The Writer.
1:56.0	Ella is with us, along with two neurologists who've written about a puzzle that comes with studying dementia
2:01.7	and other altered mental states.
2:04.0	And it's this, when we no longer remember ourselves, who do we become?
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