old perseans
OP NEWS Old Perseans have recently had a lot of success at university
Colin McFarlane (1970) played
level sport:
in Pinter Five as part of the
In December, Tim Harrison (2017) was selected for the Oxford Cross Country team in their varsity match against Cambridge.
Pinter at the Pinter season. Pinter at the Pinter was part of the
Both Zoe Durbin (2016) and Jasper Dix (2017) took to the turf
Pinter 10 partnership with the
at Twickenham for the varsity Rugby Matches on 6 December,
BFI, The Harold Pinter Estate
playing for the Dark Blues. Jasper also played in the U20s varsity
and Faber & Faber, which are
match in March (pictured), where he was joined by Henry Hackett
all marking the 10th anniversary
(2017) for Oxford and Hasan Cuthbert (2017) and George Laing
of Pinter’s death with a series
(2017) for Cambridge. Zoe was chosen to play in the 2nd team
of events celebrating the life of
match in March and was awarded Forward of the Match.
the playwright. Pinter Five was a
A record number of Old Perseans were selected for
triple bill including Harold Pinter’s
the Oxford and Cambridge teams in this year’s varsity
first play, The Room, as well as
hockey matches. Ellie Harrison (2017), Sofia Baldelli (2018),
the hilarious Victoria Station and
Rachael Harrison (2015), Conor Magowan (2015) and Nick
the reflective Family Voices.
Leach (2014) were awarded blues for Oxford. A further nine OPs competed in the 2nds/3rds/4ths matches – Libby Gower Isaac (2018), Tommy Goldberg (2017), Dilip Goyal (2015), Bradley Young (2016) and Will Woods (2015) for Oxford, and Fraser
Tess Howard (2017) has had
Allen (2018), Annabel Follows (2018), Anthony Kattuman (2016)
another successful hockey season.
and Ciaran Flaherty (2016) for Cambridge.
After featuring for Great Britain
We are always delighted to hear of alumni successes in
in every game during the 2018
university sport. If you have been awarded sporting colours by your
Women’s Champions Trophy,
university, please let us know by emailing perseado@perse.co.uk
and scoring against Japan, Tess was named as part of the GB team that faced New Zealand in the women’s first FIH Pro League match in February 2019.
After stepping down as Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2017, Thomas Campbell
In December, OP Humphrey Jennings (1924) was
(1980) was named as the new
the subject of BBC Radio 4’s Great Lives. If you
Director and CEO of the Fine
missed the Eden Project’s Tim Smit talking about
Arts Museum of San Francisco,
Humphrey you can catch up with BBC Sounds!
California, in October 2018.
Ash Ogden’s (2008) short film Toby is now available to stream online after an international festival run that took it to the US, Canada and Ireland. It was screened at 13 festivals (including the BAFTA-affiliated London Short Film Festival) and took home three awards: ‘Best Cult/Weird/Experimental Film’, ‘Best Low Budget’ and ‘Best Humour’. Starring Old Perseans Josh Swarbrick (2008) and Tim Japp (2009), the film is a surreal and darkly comic take on social acceptance. Ash has just finished writing his next project, which he describes as ‘violently colourful’. You can watch Toby at www.professorstamen.com.
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