Kent Law School students will re-enact the trial of the heroine of the 19th Century novel Lady Audley’s Secret for the Being Human Festival in Canterbury.
Being Human (from 17 to 25 November) is the second national Festival of the Humanities, which brings the work of academics into the local community to help explain and analyse what it means to be human.
Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon is a classic novel that uncovers the truth in a plot that covers bigamy, arson and murder. It challenges assumptions about the nature of femininity and investigates the divide between sanity and insanity.
Final year law students studying The Law of Evidence module have been working with Dr Lisa Dickson over the past two months, preparing oral arguments based on case files and witness statements. At the trial which will take place in Old Sessions House, Canterbury Christ Church University campus on Friday 25 November from 5pm to 7pm, two teams of law students will work with professional actors playing the part of the defendant and the witnesses. Admission is free but booking is essential.
Canterbury’s Being Human Festival 2016 is organised by Ray Laurence, Professor of Roman History and Archaeology in Kent’s School of European Culture and Languages.