The Keble Debates: Michaelmas 2019

Published: Jan. 6, 2020, 4:19 p.m.

b'The Keble Debates are termly conversations bringing together leading figures from the worlds of theatre, fiction and poetry to explore contemporary issues in the arts, and the way the arts engage with contemporary issues in wider society. David Haig MBE is an actor and playwright whose career on stage and screen has spanned almost four decades. Most recently, he appeared in the \\u2018Downton Abbey\\u2019 feature film, and in the highly acclaimed TV series \\u2018Killing Eve\\u2019. He also appeared in \\u2018Four Weddings and A Funeral\\u2019, \\u2018The Thin Blue Line\\u2019 and the National Theatre\\u2019s 2017 production of \\u2018Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead\\u2019. \\n\\nNick Starr CBE was Executive Director of the National Theatre 2002-2014, alongside Nicholas Hytner with whom he has founded the London Theatre Company. They opened the Bridge Theatre in October 2017. He received a special Olivier Award in 2014 and Tony Awards in 2012 and 2015, and was made CBE in 2014. \\n\\nThe event is hosted by Honorary Fellow Robin Geffen (1976) and novelist and playwright Barney Norris (2006).'