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A performance event contemplating the hour of death, 'The Last Women' is a powerful interpretation of the stories of condemned women from a queen convicted of treason to an illiterate ribbon weaver convicted of murder. Combining the carnival of gallows humour, the drunken dizziness of a night club, the ritual of a last supper, and heartbreaking farewells, 'The Last Women' is both intimate and epic. Celebratory and defiant, bold, haunting and beautiful, 'The Last Women' is a daring confrontation with death staged in a specially reconfigured space, and offers you the choice of joining the women in their cells or witnessing the event from the safety of the crowd.

'The Last Women' will be performed at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 20-25 April, 8pm; Weds and Sat matinee 2:45.

A performance event contemplating the hour of death, 'The Last Women' is a powerful interpretation of the stories of condemned women from a queen convicted of treason to an illiterate ribbon weaver convicted of murder. Combining the carnival of gallows humour, the drunken dizziness of a night club, the ritual of a last supper, and heartbreaking farewells, 'The Last Women' is both intimate and epic. Celebratory and defiant, bold, haunting and beautiful, 'The Last Women' is a daring confrontation with death staged in a specially reconfigured space, and offers you the choice of joining the women in their cells or witnessing the event from the safety of the crowd.

'The Last Women' will be performed at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 20-25 April, 8pm; Weds and Sat matinee 2:45.

Professor Martin McLaughlin (Oxford), ‘Alberti’s Vita and Canis: Portrait of the Artist as a Renaissance Dog’.

Lost Interpretations of Hamlet  looks at four very different readings of Shakespeare's masterpiece. The culmination of a year-long series of workshops led by CAPITAL's Artist in Residence, freelance theatre director Tom Cornford, and involving a group of ÌÇÐÄTV University students, the project has been exploring the text through the productions of Stanislavski and Gordon Craig (1912), Michael Chekhov (1924), and the planned, but never created, versions of Meyerhold and Tarkovsky. This is a unique, one-off presentation, including a performance of an abridged-version of the play, infused with the techniques of these practitioners learnt, and a discussion of the work led Professor Tony Howard.

Admission is free but tickets are limited to 40. Apply to h.j.neal@warwick.ac.uk