Reading of ‘The Dutch Lover’
On 5 October we gathered in St Peter’s Anglican Church in Canterbury to read Aphra Behn’s 1673 play The Dutch Lover, under the direction of Stewart Ross. It’s a long […]
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St Peter's Anglican Church 15 St Peter's Street, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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Masques of Aphra Behn
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, […]
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An Evening With Aphra Behn
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 […]
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Aphra Behn Prayer-Poetry Workshop
St Paul's Church Church Street, Saint Paul's, Canterbury, United KingdomAphra Behn may be best known for her plays, but she also wrote some fascinating poetry – and not all of it as risqué as her reputation suggests. On 18 […]
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Inspirational Women of Kent co-creation workshop
A fantastic visit back to Canterbury and the Beaney House of Art and Knowledge to spend the day researching inspirational Kent women through the ages. Led by digital humanities expert […]
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Aphra Behn wine, made by Kentish vineyard Barsole
Canterbury Wine Festival Westgate Hall, Westgate Hall Road, Canterbury, United KingdomAphra Behn wine, made by Kentish vineyard Barsole, features at the Canterbury Wine Festival, Westgate Hall.
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Public reading of Aphra Behn’s play The City-Heiress (1682)
St Peter's Anglican Church 15 St Peter's Street, Canterbury, United KingdomThe popular series of readings of plays by Canterbury playwrights continues with Behn’s delightfully frank political and social satire.
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Exhibition at The Beaney, High Street, Canterbury. ‘Canterbury’s Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Literature’s best kept secret’
The Beaney House of Arts and Knowledge 18 High Street, Canterbury, United KingdomThis exhibition celebrates the startling achievements of this daughter of London stage every season for over 50 years and a novella, Oroonoko, the first fiction in English to centre on a rebellion of enslaved Africans.
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Performance of The Amorous Prince, by the Canterbury Players
Canterbury Christ Church University Anselm Studio 1, N Holmes Road, Canterbury, United KingdomJoin The Canterbury Players as they bring to life their own adaptation of Aphra’s radical, shocking, political and sexy play.
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Public Talk by Sculptor Christine Charlesworth FRSA, ‘The Statue of Aphra: A Sculptor’s Journey’
Templeman Library Building University of Kent, Canterbury, United KingdomChristine will illustrate through her photographs the whole story of creating the bronze statue of Aphra Behn. Starting from her initial idea, through making the clay sculpture on a special […]
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