Join us at Downing College for a world-premiere performance of Richard Berengarten's new verse-drama I, Kassandra. The performance will be a staged reading of extracts from the new verse-drama, with live music.
Richard Berengarten is an English and European poet whose work and thought are strongly influenced by C. G, Jung. Richard is a Bye-Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the English Asso- ciation. His works include Tree (1980), Keys to Transformation (1981), Black Light (1983), Croft Woods (1999), The Manager (2001), The Balkan Trilogy (2005-2007), Imagems 1 (2011), Manual (2013), Notness (2015), and the multilingual web-based Volta Project (2009) and Albero Project (2017). His book Changing (2016) is an original and articulate poetic homage to the I Ching. In the 1970s, he founded the now legendary international Cambridge Poetry Festival. A dedicated internationalist, his poems have been translated into more than 90 languages. He has lived in Italy, Greece, the USA, and former Yugoslavia, and has worked extensively in Eastern Europe.
This event is being run in collaboration with the Downing Dramatic Society