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Moving Stories presents VANESSA & VIRGINIA
A new play by Elizabeth Wright, based on the acclaimed novel by Susan Sellers
“Our faces are imperfect replicas of each other; as if the painter were trying to capture the same person from different angles”
The Production
Based on the award winning novel by Susan Sellers, Elizabeth Wright’s innovative new play is a moving, poetic and powerful story about the remarkable sisters, novelist Virginia Woolf and artist Vanessa Bell.
Fusing original music by composer Jeremy Thurlow and poetic text, the play creates a dream-like, meditative quality, moving gracefully through time and seamlessly transporting the audience through places, events and memories. The play is enhanced by an interwoven projected backdrop of evolving images, inspired by paintings by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
Vanessa and Virginia has already garnered tremendous support and interest from venues, conferences, and the Virginia Woolf/Vanessa Bell estate, securing a tour, which began in Aix-en-Provence in September 2010. The play has been invited to Poland, Germany, Greece and across the UK including a combination of theatre spaces, literary conferences and site-specific locations until September 2011.
“Emma Gersch's intense staging is beautifully realised.” Time Out London - Orestes Re-Examined, Southwark Playhouse
The Company
Moving Stories was founded in April 2010 by director Emma Gersch, and Vanessa and Virginia is its debut production. Moving Stories provides a platform for dynamic artistic collaboration, which fuses multi-disciplinary art forms, new writing and devising. The company aims to inspire, empower and engage a diverse audience across the UK and abroad in all its work. We aim to awaken the senses and stimulate the emotions by creating bold, ambitious and beautiful work for both theatres and unusual locations and sites.
Cast:
Virginia Woolf - Sarah Fullagar
Vanessa Bell – Kitty Randle
Creative Team:
Directed by Emma Gersch
Written by Elizabeth Wright
Composer: Jeremy Thurlow
Designer: Kate Unwin
Technician: George Seal
Weblinks:
www.movingstories.org.uk
www.vanessaandvirginiaresearch.blogspot.com
http://susansellers.wordpress.com/category/Susan%27s-Blog/
Press contacts
To book review tickets, interviews or photo shoots, please contact:
Sarah Fullagar on sarah@movingstories.org.uk / 07920 402 491
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A new play by Elizabeth Wright, based on the acclaimed novel by Susan Sellers
“Our faces are imperfect replicas of each other; as if the painter were trying to capture the same person from different angles”
The Production
Based on the award winning novel by Susan Sellers, Elizabeth Wright’s innovative new play is a moving, poetic and powerful story about the remarkable sisters, novelist Virginia Woolf and artist Vanessa Bell.
Fusing original music by composer Jeremy Thurlow and poetic text, the play creates a dream-like, meditative quality, moving gracefully through time and seamlessly transporting the audience through places, events and memories. The play is enhanced by an interwoven projected backdrop of evolving images, inspired by paintings by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
Vanessa and Virginia has already garnered tremendous support and interest from venues, conferences, and the Virginia Woolf/Vanessa Bell estate, securing a tour, which began in Aix-en-Provence in September 2010. The play has been invited to Poland, Germany, Greece and across the UK including a combination of theatre spaces, literary conferences and site-specific locations until September 2011.
“Emma Gersch's intense staging is beautifully realised.” Time Out London - Orestes Re-Examined, Southwark Playhouse
The Company
Moving Stories was founded in April 2010 by director Emma Gersch, and Vanessa and Virginia is its debut production. Moving Stories provides a platform for dynamic artistic collaboration, which fuses multi-disciplinary art forms, new writing and devising. The company aims to inspire, empower and engage a diverse audience across the UK and abroad in all its work. We aim to awaken the senses and stimulate the emotions by creating bold, ambitious and beautiful work for both theatres and unusual locations and sites.
Cast:
Virginia Woolf - Sarah Fullagar
Vanessa Bell – Kitty Randle
Creative Team:
Directed by Emma Gersch
Written by Elizabeth Wright
Composer: Jeremy Thurlow
Designer: Kate Unwin
Technician: George Seal
Weblinks:
www.movingstories.org.uk
www.vanessaandvirginiaresearch.blogspot.com
http://susansellers.wordpress.com/category/Susan%27s-Blog/
Press contacts
To book review tickets, interviews or photo shoots, please contact:
Sarah Fullagar on sarah@movingstories.org.uk / 07920 402 491
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Lady Macbeth (Aileen Gonsalves) and the Three Witches. Picture by Paul Harnett
Butterfly presents 'Macbeth' - Tuesday 9-Saturday 13 August
Having sold out during Buxton Fringe and closing with rave reviews Butterfly are currently jamming (not in a fun, musical way - the stressful, challenging, other way) the BAF Hotline with requests for tickets.
Outdoor Shakespeare always does well during BAF, it seems to fit the environment - something about all that heightened emotion and the sheer number of loud, lofty words being bounced around by the ever unseasonal wind. And really, where else could you see the unsexing of Lady Macbeth this August? Would be a tragedy to miss it. See Events page and local press for details.
Outdoor Shakespeare always does well during BAF, it seems to fit the environment - something about all that heightened emotion and the sheer number of loud, lofty words being bounced around by the ever unseasonal wind. And really, where else could you see the unsexing of Lady Macbeth this August? Would be a tragedy to miss it. See Events page and local press for details.
Scary Witch (Caroline Colomei). Picture by Paul Harnett
Macbeth (Nick Danon). Picture by Paul Harnett
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Picture by Paul Harnett
PRESS RELEASE
Bakewell Arts Festival 2011
Every August the peaceful town of Bakewell in the Peak district is woken up by 10 days of concerts, theatre, poetry, street performance, art exhibitions, live music, unique events and much, much more during Bakewell Arts Festival. This year, the BAF wake-up call promises to be louder than ever.
Says BAF director, Janette Hockley-Webster: “The young BAF Management Group continue to bring a cutting edge vibrancy and, I have to say, random genius to the Festival programme – there’s little of any artistic value around that they aren’t interested in and muscling in on with insistence.”
The results of the frenzied activity by the youth of Derbyshire and beyond can be found all around Bakewell from 4-14 August. Highlights are the legendary BAF Sessions at the Tent’s in the Castle Inn car park, an acoustic programme featuring the best of local, regional and national songsters, this year to include ‘Sheffield Steal’ night, where Sheffield’s best attempt to blow Bakewell out of the water, and ‘Leaving Chezvegas’, when impresario and band veteran Luke Alton brings a host of musical talent from Chesterfield to give performers in the Peak a run for their money. Game on.
A new initiative for the Festival this year includes ‘Festival Front’, where Bakewell’s shops and businesses offer ‘front-of-house’ showcase space to young and emerging talent alongside mid-career artists locally, regionally and nationally. Featured exhibitions this year are London-based young artist James Allen’s ‘A World of Impressions’ at H’s Wine Bar and Tim Haynes’ haunting installation ‘Pathfinder’, originally created at national centre for excellence in the arts, the Level Centre at Rowsley, on view at Bakewell Parish Church.
This year sees another glittering national dance and theatre programme as part of Theatre @ BAF including two new contemporary dance workshops and performance by Alice Vale’s new regional contemporary dance company 3Fold; Butterfly theatre’s presentation of ‘Macbeth’, a 90-minute promenade production fresh from sell-out performances during Buxton Fringe; Cotton Grass Theatre’s ‘Twelfth Night’ in the fabulous setting of Thornbridge Hall; Moving Stories theatre’s production of ‘Vanessa & Virginia’, a new play by Elizabeth Wright based on the acclaimed novel by Susan Sellers about the remarkable sisters, novelist Virginia Woolf and artist Vanessa Bell; plus Bakewell Youth Theatre’s outdoor performance of ‘Kiss Me Kate’; the much loved babbling vagabonds theatre company’s quarry-sited production of ‘The Devil with Three Golden Hairs’; and local-boy-done-good Tom Pearce’s one-man, largely autobiographical show ‘A Life in Music’.
As ever, the jewel in the BAF crown this year is Tarmac’s Live on the Lorry event which this year features the second BAF Battle of the Bands. After which, there will be showcases from the genuinely adored ska legends and BAF 2010 Battle of the Bands winners ‘ShotshotStacy’ followed by a headlining finale featuring ‘Club George Yelding’, whose band members originate from Liverpool, London and Derbyshire. The band members are all gigging professional musicians, having played a large quantity of gigs around the UK including Beach Break Festival and Liverpool Soundcity Festival. Club George Yelding have gone on to perform at the Queen's Hall, Widnes; a venue which has been graced by bands such as 'The Farm' and 'The Beatles'. The band is now ready to take on the Live on the Lorry audience to ensure an exciting day out at the annual free-to-the-public BAF public party. Unmissable.
Other highlights of Festival week include BAF Poetry in the courtyard @ Nice café along with BAF Blues & Jazz featuring Steve Buckley, Steve Brown and Eryl Roberts at the Hassop Station Café and Sarah Bennett and Curt Shaw at Le Mistral.
Look out for further events and happenings during Festival week.
Tickets and further information from:
The Bakewell Bookshop, Market Street, Bakewell
BAF Ticket Hotline: 07772 543576
Email: janette@bakewellfestival.com
The BAF box office is also open at the BAF Tent in the Castle Inn car park during events.
Date: 15 July 2011
Status: Immediate
Contact: Janette Hockley-Webster
T: 01629 815548
M: 07817 693063
Further pictures and quotes on request or visit the Press page at
www.bakewellfestival.com
Bakewell Arts Festival 2011
Every August the peaceful town of Bakewell in the Peak district is woken up by 10 days of concerts, theatre, poetry, street performance, art exhibitions, live music, unique events and much, much more during Bakewell Arts Festival. This year, the BAF wake-up call promises to be louder than ever.
Says BAF director, Janette Hockley-Webster: “The young BAF Management Group continue to bring a cutting edge vibrancy and, I have to say, random genius to the Festival programme – there’s little of any artistic value around that they aren’t interested in and muscling in on with insistence.”
The results of the frenzied activity by the youth of Derbyshire and beyond can be found all around Bakewell from 4-14 August. Highlights are the legendary BAF Sessions at the Tent’s in the Castle Inn car park, an acoustic programme featuring the best of local, regional and national songsters, this year to include ‘Sheffield Steal’ night, where Sheffield’s best attempt to blow Bakewell out of the water, and ‘Leaving Chezvegas’, when impresario and band veteran Luke Alton brings a host of musical talent from Chesterfield to give performers in the Peak a run for their money. Game on.
A new initiative for the Festival this year includes ‘Festival Front’, where Bakewell’s shops and businesses offer ‘front-of-house’ showcase space to young and emerging talent alongside mid-career artists locally, regionally and nationally. Featured exhibitions this year are London-based young artist James Allen’s ‘A World of Impressions’ at H’s Wine Bar and Tim Haynes’ haunting installation ‘Pathfinder’, originally created at national centre for excellence in the arts, the Level Centre at Rowsley, on view at Bakewell Parish Church.
This year sees another glittering national dance and theatre programme as part of Theatre @ BAF including two new contemporary dance workshops and performance by Alice Vale’s new regional contemporary dance company 3Fold; Butterfly theatre’s presentation of ‘Macbeth’, a 90-minute promenade production fresh from sell-out performances during Buxton Fringe; Cotton Grass Theatre’s ‘Twelfth Night’ in the fabulous setting of Thornbridge Hall; Moving Stories theatre’s production of ‘Vanessa & Virginia’, a new play by Elizabeth Wright based on the acclaimed novel by Susan Sellers about the remarkable sisters, novelist Virginia Woolf and artist Vanessa Bell; plus Bakewell Youth Theatre’s outdoor performance of ‘Kiss Me Kate’; the much loved babbling vagabonds theatre company’s quarry-sited production of ‘The Devil with Three Golden Hairs’; and local-boy-done-good Tom Pearce’s one-man, largely autobiographical show ‘A Life in Music’.
As ever, the jewel in the BAF crown this year is Tarmac’s Live on the Lorry event which this year features the second BAF Battle of the Bands. After which, there will be showcases from the genuinely adored ska legends and BAF 2010 Battle of the Bands winners ‘ShotshotStacy’ followed by a headlining finale featuring ‘Club George Yelding’, whose band members originate from Liverpool, London and Derbyshire. The band members are all gigging professional musicians, having played a large quantity of gigs around the UK including Beach Break Festival and Liverpool Soundcity Festival. Club George Yelding have gone on to perform at the Queen's Hall, Widnes; a venue which has been graced by bands such as 'The Farm' and 'The Beatles'. The band is now ready to take on the Live on the Lorry audience to ensure an exciting day out at the annual free-to-the-public BAF public party. Unmissable.
Other highlights of Festival week include BAF Poetry in the courtyard @ Nice café along with BAF Blues & Jazz featuring Steve Buckley, Steve Brown and Eryl Roberts at the Hassop Station Café and Sarah Bennett and Curt Shaw at Le Mistral.
Look out for further events and happenings during Festival week.
Tickets and further information from:
The Bakewell Bookshop, Market Street, Bakewell
BAF Ticket Hotline: 07772 543576
Email: janette@bakewellfestival.com
The BAF box office is also open at the BAF Tent in the Castle Inn car park during events.
Date: 15 July 2011
Status: Immediate
Contact: Janette Hockley-Webster
T: 01629 815548
M: 07817 693063
Further pictures and quotes on request or visit the Press page at
www.bakewellfestival.com
