It has been decided to cancel the live AGM meeting that was to have been held at St Anne’s Soho. The event will now be held online only, commencing at the usual time of 2.00 pm. Members can find details of how to join the event via the members’ pages.
After the AGM there will be a talk by Frances Myatt, director of the DLS play Love All that was staged in Cambridge earlier this year. For further information, please contact the Society.
Love All , the play written by Dorothy L Sayers is now on at Jermyn Street Theatre. Get tickets while you can!
This weekend you can visit the clock tower of St Anne’s Church, Soho, where Dorothy L Sayers’ ashes are buried. This is part of Open House London
The Norah Lambourne Award, made to apprentices at the Royal Opera House was celebrated today. It was good to be able to meet again in person as there were three awards to give out for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022. Society Chair, Seona Ford and Society Archivist, Alison Hall made the presentations.
The winners were:
2019/20: Harry Clarke. Costume Tailoring Apprentice;
2020/21: Hermina Chance. Hair, Wigs and Makeup Apprentice;
2021/22: Danielle Patrick . Photography Apprentice.
Congratulations to Harry, Hermina and Danielle .
On Sunday, 12 June, close to 40 members gathered at the Mill at Sonning to see a performance of Dorothy L Sayers’ play, Busman’s Honeymoon, directed by Brian Blessed. A full report of the event will appear in the July Bulletin.
This year, the lecture at the Essex Book Festival was given by crime writer Elly Griffiths at the library in Witham. Witham is where Dorothy L Sayers lived for many years until her death in 1957. A full report on the entertaining lecture given by Elly Griffiths will be given in the July issue of the Bulletin.
This online event, ‘Burnt Books,: A Walk through the Flames of London’s History’ led by Alice Ford-Smith, will lead you through London before “making its way to the heart of Bloomsbury” (where Dorothy L Sayers lived and in which she set some of her fiction). More information and booking can be found here
We advertised this conference way back in April. For those of you who are interested, the timetable for this event is now available online. There is a special panel convened to look at DLS, entitled ‘New Sides to Dorothy L Sayers’ . Speakers are: Mary C Rawlinson, Jason Whittle and Jordan Welsh.