Join The Canterbury Players as they bring to life their own adaptation of Aphra’s radical, shocking, political and sexy play.
In a sold-out Anselm Studio 1 on the Canterbury Christ Church University campus, we were taken back in time for – as the programme put it – a ‘Cornucopial Enticementation of Words by Mrs Aphra Behn with Musick by the finest Composers of her Age’. The evening included scenes and speeches from The Amorous Prince, […]
As part of this year’s Canterbury Festival, The Aphra Behn Society of Canterbury presented The Masks of Aphra Behn. An audience of around 150 people gathered in St Paul’s-without-the-Walls Church, Canterbury, the very church where Aphra’s parents were married, to enjoy this one-woman show, written and performed by Claire Louise Amias and using excerpts from […]
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation.
A year of events celebrating the life and works of the first woman professional writer in English and daughter of Canterbury, Aphra Behn (1640-1689).
