Penny Lecture | Performing Surgery: The Theatre Of The Theatre

In Performing surgery: the theatre of the Theatre, Roger Kneebone explores how framing operative surgery as a performance and a craft can bring new insights. Drawing on his extensive collaborations with musicians, actors, dancers and craftsmen, Roger describes how he uses realistic simulation to invite outsiders into the hidden world of the operating theatre.

Roger Kneebone is Professor of Surgical Education at Imperial College London and Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow. He leads an unorthodox and creative research group, bringing together experts from the visual and performing arts, clinicians, educationalists, computer scientists, psychologists, social scientists and design engineers to explore relationships between the biomedical sciences, the craft of surgery and the humanities and social sciences.

This talk forms part of the Morley College Penny Lecture series. Penny Lectures began in 1882 at the Old Vic Theatre in Waterloo. Topics were chosen to encourage new thinking and ideas and provided illustrated lectures at affordable prices…a penny! The lectures were a huge success and quickly led to the establishment of ‘Morley Memorial College’ for Working Men and Women. Now celebrating our 125 year anniversary, we have revived the Penny Lecture series for a new generation of adults to learn from and be inspired by.