True Fool Love - 14th Feb 2007
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Introduction
To celebrate St. Valentine's day in 2007 Iris theatre put together a short evening of Shakespearean sonnets and love songs at 7.30 pm - 9pm at the Club for Acts and Actors on Bedford St in Covent Garden. This charitable one-off was in aid of the Catholic Stage Guild.
The evening’s performance was constructed over a
single day’s rehearsal. All the fantastic performers involved gave their time for free.The sonnets were arranged reasonably artfully into four ‘story’ threads which each explored the dynamics of a specific relationship. Although 90% of the sonnets were from Shakespeare we also snuck in one or two other more modern pieces. The music and song were supplied to great effect by Mary and Jim providing a complimentary backbone to the whole evening.
Love is the very short and inadequate word which we use to attempt to describe a myriad of conflicting human emotions, all of them overwhelming and mostly incomprehensible. Of course the mystery at the heart of love remains silent, ever watched and watchful. It is the centre of all our outpourings of language, but never speaks a word itself. All love poetry is an inevitably flawed attempt to pin down the indescribable. If you have been in love, if you are in love, you just know.
Cast Photographs
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| Daniel Winder | Jim Brown | Mary Gifford Brown | Constance Dalrymple | Annekoos Arlman | Tom Durham | Alexander Warner |
Running Order
Thread 1: BYRON – ‘She walks in beauty’, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 128.
Thread 2: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 23, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 53.
Thread 3: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 39, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 50.
Thread 4: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 41, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 118.
Song 1:
Thread 1: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 141, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 130.
Thread 2: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 76, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 18.
Thread 3: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 109, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 91.
Thread 4: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 152, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 90.
Song 2: ‘
River Blues’.Thread 1: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 140.
Thread 2: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 26.
Thread 3: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 108.
Thread 4: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 40, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 119.
Song 3: ‘
Mad about the Boy’.[
BREAK]Song 4: ‘Fish Gotta Swim’
Thread 1: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 102, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 116.
Thread 2: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 17, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 129.
Thread 3: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 32.
Thread 4: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 93.
Song 5: ‘
Send Home My Long Strayed Eyes’.PABLO NERUDA – ‘Tonight I can write the saddest lines’.
Thread 2: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 139.
Thread 3: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 123.
Thread 2: SHAKESPEARE – Romeo & Juliet Act 1: Scene 5.
Thread 3: SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 117, SHAKESPEARE – Sonnet 25.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI – ‘Echo’.
Song 6: ‘Funny Valentine’.
Cast List
Co Directors – Alex Medem, Daniel Winder
Piano – Francis James Brown
Songs – Mary Gifford Brown
Poetry Readings :
Thread 1 - Bradley Taylor, Constance Dalrymple
Thread 2 - Tom Hunter, Annekoos Arlman
Thread 3 - Mary Gifford Brown, Tom Durham
Thread 4: Nicole Scott, Alexander Warner
Addition pieces: Daniel Winder
Promotional Material
Click here to see the flyer.
