Wednesday, 6 January 2016

40 years ago... Allende, Chile's Coup, & the United States





The political background to Ariel Doftman's play "DEATH AND THE MAIDEN"                      

Click here http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/14/death-maiden-relevance-play

 for THE GUARDIAN UK  interview with Ariel Dorfman

I'm thrilled that Death and the Maiden has not aged over these 20 years, that it still moves people to tears, confronts them with a tragedy that has no clear solution, that it speaks to our world today with the same passion it embodied yesterday. I'm thrilled that the relations between men and women that I explored, the intricacies of memory and madness, the aftermath of violence, the uncertainty of truth and narrative, continue to capture the imagination of so many. Thrilled, yes, but it is also sobering to realise that humanity has not managed to learn from the past, that torture has not been abolished, that justice is so rarely served, that censorship prevails, that the hopes of a democratic revolution can be gutted and distorted and warped.
I can't help but ask if 20 years from now I will be writing this phrase all over again: this story happened yesterday, but it could well be today.

Monday, 4 January 2016

IOC APPOINTMENTS ROUND 2

TUESDAY 440pm SUPRIYA

WEDNESDAY 440PM SIMRAN GUPTA

THURSDAY 210PM SOHIL
THURSDAY 3PM SUMAIR D
THURSDAY 440PM AVISHI J
VIR FRIDAY 350PM

FRIDAY 440PM SUMER T


Sunday, 27 December 2015

IOC List of poems and arrangements

Students - come to school about 15 minutes before your start - time. 
Stay on the 3 rd floor and go to the LIBRARY to get your extract  - 5 minutes before your due time.
If there is another student there for the IOC prep - sit far away and do not interact with them.
Follow the librarians instructions exactly. Do not bring any IOC texts or notes to the library - leave them in your locker or outside.
DO NOT ENTER ROOM 9 UNTIL THE LIBRARIANS OR I INSTRUCT YOU TO DO SO.

THE SENTRY
STRANGE MEETING
SPRING OFFENSIVE
MENTAL CASES 
DISABLED
DULCE ET DECORUM 
EXPOSURE

See the email I sent just now with more detailed instructions.