THE PEN ALL-INDIA CENTRE & PRITHVI THEATRE
invite you to
‘THE TANGLED BANK’
A reading by RUTH PADEL
Date: 26 July 2010 (Monday)
Time: 7 pm
Place: Prithvi Theatre, Janki Kutir, Juhu Church Road
Juhu, Bombay 400 049
ALL ARE WELCOME: THIS READING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
On the last page of The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin proposes his famous vision of life-forms co-existing alongside each other: of an entangled bank, clothed with plants of many kinds, birds singing on the bushes, various insects flitting about, worms crawling through the damp earth. These elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us: there is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or one.
A descendant of Darwin, the distinguished British poet and novelist Ruth Padel will read from a bank of her own work, both poetry and prose, drawing parallels between the forms of words on the page and those of natural history, stressing the interconnectedness of poetry and science, theatre and nature. She will read her highly praised poems about Darwin, poems on wildlife and genetics, from her novel Where the Serpent Lives, featuring the Hamadryad or King Cobra in forests of Karnataka and Bengal, and from Tigers in Red Weather, her book on tiger conservation throughout Asia. Padel will also do a rare reading from her work on Greek Tragedy, arguing that from its Western origins, the theatre has been the place that makes visible the unseen.
For more on the author, please see: www.ruthpadel.com
RANJIT HOSKOTE
Hon. Secretary-Treasurer
The PEN All-India Centre
Inquiries: india.pen@gmail.com
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