New for 2025, go beyond the play and dive deeper into the world behind each of our productions with our Saturday Seminars series.

Enjoy guest lectures and discussions with leading academics and experts to explore the history and context behind each of our productions.

Previous speakers include Dr Will Tosh and Jonathan Dimbleby. 

All tickets £15.

Joining us for the In Praise of Love Saturday Seminar is Professor Dan Rebellato.

Dan is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, and his books include 1956 and All That, Theatre & Globalization, and Modern British Playwriting 2000-2009. He is co-editor of Contemporary European Theatre Directors, Contemporary European Playwrights, The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre since 1945, the Theatre & series for Bloomsbury, and the selected plays of Terence Rattigan for Nick Hern Books. 

As a playwright his work for stage and radio includes Static, Chekhov in Hell, Cavalry, Emily Rising, My Life Is A Series of People Saying Goodbye, You & Me, Slow Air and Restless Dreams. His adaptation of Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend was broadcast on BBC Radio last year, and he was lead writer on Radio 4’s epic, award-winning adaptation of Emile Zola’s 20-volume novel sequence under the title Emile Zola: Blood, Sex & Money. His how-to guide, Playwriting, is published by Bloomsbury/National Theatre.

Saturday Seminar Upcoming Dates

Sat 10 May • 11am Ben & Imo