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Gate Debate: Ben Okri and Clare Slater on The Unknown Island

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Clare Slater, dramaturg on The Unknown Island and Literary Manager of the Donmar Warehouse talks to Ben Okri (OBE FRSL), Man Booker Prize winning novelist and poet, whose works include The Famished Road, A Way of Being Free, and Starbook, about the politics of imagination inspired by The Unknown Island.

Why do we need to imagine? Who gets to imagine themselves in heroic stories? How do our imaginations shape the world around us? Join us for this exciting (and free!) Gate debate on October 2nd, 2017 by booking a ticket to The Unknown Island that evening.

(Approx. 30 minutes)

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Monday 2nd October, after that evening's performance of The Unknown Island. The event is free to attend.

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Clare Slater, dramaturg on The Unknown Island and Literary Manager of the Donmar Warehouse talks to Ben Okri (OBE FRSL), Man Booker Prize winning novelist and poet, whose works include The Famished Road, A Way of Being Free, and Starbook, about the politics of imagination inspired by The Unknown Island.

Why do we need to imagine? Who gets to imagine themselves in heroic stories? How do our imaginations shape the world around us? Join us for this exciting (and free!) Gate debate on October 2nd, 2017 by booking a ticket to The Unknown Island that evening.

(Approx. 30 minutes)

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