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Provisional Social Programme

Tuesday evening - 3rd September

For those attending tutorials or workshops there will be a short reception at the University where groups of people will be encouraged to adopt a student volunteer. The SVs will have been issued with maps and lists of what the organisers consider to be the most interesting local pubs and restaurants.

Wednesday evening - 4th September

South Bank University is home to the British Youth Opera and also houses the largest Wurlitzer organ in Europe (a 4 manual 24 rank machine if that is at all meaningful to anyone). A University reception on the Wednesday evening will feature recitals by soloists from the youth opera, a concert on the Wurlitzer and also tours of the organ loft.  If all of this seems too intense and exhausting, a third location will feature a jazz pianist for chilling out.

Thursday evening - 5th September
The highlight of the social programme will take place on Thursday evening with a visit to see A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Shakespeare's Globe is an accurate reconstruction of the seventeenth century theatre located very close to the location of the original. There are only a limited number of tickets and these will be allocated as bookings are received (another reason to book early). Half of the tickets have been purchased for groundlings who stand in the pit but sadly are no longer allowed to throw fruit at the performers. The remaining tickets are for those who wish to forsake authenticity and atmosphere for the relative comfort of a hard bench. A reception will be held before the performance.

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most fanciful comedies. The humour crosses not just the generations but  reaches out from a former age to ours in a breathtakingly easy embrace. Hermia with the stubbornness of youth refuses to marry the man her father wants her to and thus resorts to the age old solution of running away. It takes an argument between the king and queen of fairyland to help bring about a resolution for Hermia and her lover. But as in all good comedies there are hiccoughs along the way and solutions to other seemingly impossible situations as well.

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