An assessed performance of choral techniques in both sung and spoken voice to create an immersive performance of poetic text. This is for small invited audience of family and friends only.
The performance will take place at St Peter’s Church, Marefair, Northampton.
The church can be quite cold and the performance is approx. 70 mins, so please ensure you bring warm clothing.
Detailed Description
This assessed performance will include poems, music and movement in this beautiful, historic and atmospheric church.
The poems performed will include: The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde and The Dream Of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood. Both stories of torment, guilt and isolation.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol was Oscar Wilde’s most successful poem and was his last great work written before his death in 1900. It details the emotional experience of imprisonment, something that Wilde lived firsthand when he was sentenced to two years of hard labor in Reading Gaol after a failed court case with his long-term partner’s father. Wilde engages with themes of loss, imprisonment, and emotional turbulence. The poet works from his own experiences in Reading Gaol, and those of men he met or knew about, to craft this poem about the sorrows of life, love, and solitude.
"The Dream of Eugene Aram" is a ballad that tells the tale of a schoolmaster who confesses to a murder he committed in a dream. "The Dream of Eugene Aram" is a powerful and moving poem about the guilt and remorse of a murderer.
