Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall

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Janet Suzman in conversation with Edith Hall

Oxford University

May 12

1:00 pm

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Award-winning, South African-born actor and director, Dame Janet Suzman, will be in conversation with Professor Edith Hall (University of Durham), discussing Suzman's theatrical engagements with antiquity during the course of her prodigious 60-year career.