Easter at King's: Infinite Sweetness: Simone Weil and the prayer that Jesus taught
a presentation in words and music of the life and spirituality of one of the 20th century’s most remarkable and enigmatic women, devised by Stephen Cherry
8 April 2020, 7.30pm
King’s College Chapel
Lynne Forbes Simone Weil
Donald Macleod narrator
Joy Lisney cello
Simone Weil was an intellectual in the fullest sense of the word. Thought dominated her life, so much so that Susan Sontag said of her that she was ‘excruciatingly identical with her ideas’. But she did not withdraw from the world, rather her remarkable powers of empathy caused her to share in the suffering of others to an extraordinary degree. Towards the end of her life she discovered the Lord’s Prayer and began to say it over and over in Greek. It spoke to her soul and through her remarkable and challenging words it might yet speaks to ours.
Tickets £13.50 (concessions available), £5 students via:
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