Event

MUNDUS ET INFANS ET TERRA MATER

MA Acting

  • Fri 8 Jul 22

    19:30 - 21:30

  • Corbett Theatre, Loughton

  • Event type

    Student Production

A response to medieval morality play Mundus et Infans and to Auden’s poem of the same name.

Conceived by Andrea Brooks and the Company

with W.H. Auden and the great “Anon”.

Part of the 'Moral Panic' season.

How does Mother Earth sustain the world? And how does The World sustain their Children? And where did this mess begin? Inspired by a late mediaeval morality play and Auden’s 80 year old poem we think it’s time to find some constructive answers…

'“Kicking his mother until she let go of his soul
Has given him a healthy appetite: clearly, her role
               In the New Order must be
To supply and deliver his raw materials free;

'we had never learned to distinguish

Between hunger and love?'

It’s time to grow up.

 

MUNDUS ET INFANS ET TERRA MATER

Content Warnings: adult themes; language some may find offensive; partial nudity; discussion of war, rape and abuse.