This is the Good Place: Christopher and the Grave-Diggers
Celebrating the Centenary of Christopher Isherwood's time at Corpus Christi.
This specially commissioned new work, compiled and directed by theatre-maker Mia Hull (m.2022) and supported by the English Faculty's Judith E Wilson Practice-as-Research Fund, stages an all-female (re)enactment of a Grave-Diggers Society playreading on the site of the exhibition. But as the group reads its selected play—W H Auden and Isherwood's campy The Ascent of F6 about a group of men racing up a mountain to stop an imperialist war—it triggers an examination of where their leader's power stems from and whom Isherwood wants to align himself with: the Cambridge society of his classmates or the surrealist world he has created with his friend Edward Upward?
CAST & CREW
Director – Mia Hull (m.2022)
Associate Director – Joshua Herberg (English)
Producer – Eliza Haughton-Shaw (Early-Career Research Fellow)
Line Producer – Ella Ducker (English)
Isherwood – Sylvie Field (m.2022)
M. V. Mandeville – Maisie Johnson (ASNaC)
M. G. Whithome – Hannah Le Seelleur (AMES)
