The Queen's College Record 2023

The Revd Canon Katharine Butterfield, Rector of the benefice of Kirkoswald, Renwick
with Croglin, Great Salkeld & Lazonby
“It’s been a great delight over the past couple of years, to welcome singers from
The Queen’s College, Oxford. Queen’s (I have discovered) is recognised as one of
those institutions which take their patronage of Parish Churches seriously and the
recent visit of the singers clearly demonstrated this. It was a joy to welcome Sam
and his friends to sing a setting of the Mass for our morning worship and we were
even more delighted to see such a large congregation present for Choral Evensong.”
Old Members’ Activities
The Revd David Wilmot, Rector of Grasmere & Rydal and Chaplain at Rydal Hall
I have already begun to plan a return trip to the area for next summer, which would
hopefully incorporate further outreach to other schools in the area. The generosity
of the College—as well as the support of donors and the Old Members’ Office—
allowed for us to essentially underwrite the entire trip, allowing us to operate without
any worries about the funding of the trip and to properly focus on providing the best
service we could. This was particularly important, as we were officially representing
the College (rather than just on holiday in the Lake District).
What, I hope, is clear from the content above, is that the opportunity for this form of
outreach is not only fairly easy to enact but is also possible for a reasonably modest
investment; I hope that we will be able to coordinate with the Old Members’ Office in
order to raise funds for the return trip in 2024, with a long-term view to set in motion
a tradition of choral outreach from the College to the North of England.
Olivia Winnifrith
taking a play to the Edinburgh Fringe
Using the money given to me by the 650 th Anniversary
Trust Fund, Green Sun Productions, an Oxford-based
student production company, took their feminist
adaptation of Molière’s Tartuffe to the Edinburgh Fringe
festival following a sold-out Oxford run in November.
Tartuffe the Imposter transplants Molière’s original to a
corporate London office, where the foolish boss has been taken in by new employee
Tartuffe who masquerades as the ‘world’s greatest feminist’ although the rest of
the team are not quite so convinced. In this version of Tartuffe, written by Oxford
students Flora Davies and Sian Lawrence, the performative feminism exhibited by
Tartuffe, as well as the opposing attitudes of some of the other characters, explores
the contradictions and the generational divides within feminism. In particular the
production focused on the often-neglected themes of sexual assault and misogyny
present in Molière’s work, Tartuffe tells the character I play, Dorine, to cover up and
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