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Theatr Pena - WAR SONGS

Event Details

Time: March 14, 2012 from 1pm to 2pm
Location: The Riverfront
City/Town: Newport
Event Type: song, recital
Organized By: Adam Timms
Latest Activity: Jan 18, 2012

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Event Description

2011 - 2012

Our next production THE MAIDS by JEAN GENET is planned for June 2012
and will be a co-production with The Riverfront, Newport
and staged in association with The Torch Theatre, Milford Haven.

Profile and Fund Raisers 2012
In order to start building an audience for The Maids, we will be staging a series of
profile and fund raisers in The Riverfront Studio between next February and May

Wednesday 15th February at 1pm:
DARK LOVE & DEEP SONG
“theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to
talk and shout, weep and despair.” (Lorca 1936)
Directed by Hannah O’Leary,
Kathryn Dimery, Erica Eirian, Hannah O'Leary, Lisabeth Miles and Olwen Rees
will perform readings from Lorca’s plays and poetry and acclaimed mezzo-soprano Buddug Verona James will perform the words and music of Lorca and Manuel de Falla

Wednesday 14th March at 1pm:
WAR SONGS
From the carnage, grief and despair of war, the human spirit emerges.
In what promises to be a moving musical celebration of the human spirit,
Rosamund Shelley, accompanied by Christopher Littlewood,
will perform the words and music of
Boubil and Schonberg
Brecht, Eisler, Euripides, Kipling,
Novello, Sassoon, Schumann and Kurt Weil

Wednesday 9th May at 1pm
MOTHER TONGUE
“What else do we share, but being women?” (from Marged by Gillian Clark)
Directed by Betsan Llwyd,
Betsan Llwyd, Olwen Rees, Christine Pritchard and Eiry Thomas
will perform readings from the poetry, prose and plays of
Welsh Women Writers