On Sunday, 27 January, acclaimed poets Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage will appear together on the stage of The Tricycle Theatre, London, in ‘Inspirations’, a performance of the poetry and prose which has inspired each poet in their work and in their lives. The poets’ selections will be read by the poets themselves, supported by West End actors Charles Dance and Jenny Jules.
pics of the event :
Inspirations at Tricycle Theatre by Rosie Lavan
It was a full house at the Tricyle last Sunday night when Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage took to the stage of the Kilburn theatre at a special fundraising event for English PEN. At £35 for an unreserved seat, the tickets weren’t cheap, as PEN president Gillian Slovo noted in her opening remarks. But they did sell out.
....Each poet introduced their selections one by one and they were joined on stage by the actors Charles Dance and Jenny Jules, who read the works that they had chosen...... Dance has an inimitable stage presence: he is a consummate actor. He charged the atmosphere with the modulations of voice and accent he brought to each piece of writing he read. He put on traces of a Yorkshire accent for his reading of Ted Hughes’s ‘Bayonet Charge’ and ‘The Bull Moses’, and of an Irish accent for two particularly evocative passages chosen by Heaney, the opening of Patrick Kavanagh’s long poem ‘The Great Hunger’, as well as an extract from the first episode of Joyce’s Ulysses. And in perhaps the most unexpected of Heaney’s selections, he made a fine Falstaff, delivering the old lewd knight’s paean to the wondrous and varied effects of drink from Henry IV, Part 2. Together, Dance and Jules read Armitage’s chosen extract from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and the surreally atmospheric poem ‘A Sound Like Distant Thunder’ by James Tate, to great comic effect.
....Even Dance was visibly struck by the effect of these words, spoken by his co-reader
from : http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/inspirations-at-tricycle-theatre/
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