writers paired with artists make new works in response to Shakespeare's iconic play
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8th - 17th June 2018
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Exhibition and performances at:
Writers paired with artists
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Sharon Ashton with Annette Pugh
Elsa Braekkan Payne with Lucy Gresley
Deb Catesby with James Fisher
Sheila Farrell with Maria Boyle
Catherine Greene Jones with Sarah Woelker
Nicola Jones with Amy McLelland
Helen Kelly with Dawn Harris
Freddie Lockett with Hallam Wood
Philip Monks with Cristina Celestini
Lance Woodman with Sheila Farrell
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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, (which is part of the current RSC season in nearby Stratford), is a seesaw experience, swinging violently between opposites: young and old, light and dark, dreams and reality, life and death, poison and preservation, love and murder.
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‘Love is a smoke made with a fume of sighs
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.’
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For this project, our writers are each teamed with a visual artist. The pairs will work together on ideas springing directly and indirectly from the play.
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Emerging from these collaborations are new visual works and short original poems, prose & dramatic scenes which will be performed amongst the artworks at ArtistsWorkhouse.
An entertaining and varied performance and exhibition, full of destruction and creation, humour and sadness, play and seriousness.
a plague on both your houses