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In Tunes
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Speaking
In Tune
A Performance for string
quartet and multi-screen video projections
with music composed by Jocelyn
Pook and with visuals by Dragan
Aleksic.
A classic quartet, four
women, four witnesses. Speaking in Tunes
is inspired by everyday sounds that become
woven into the music of a string quartet
as they take off on a journey driven by
their thoughts, memories and dreams. Brilliant
film landscapes are mixed with fragments
of interviews about music, performing, and
the course of life. Falling carpets and
junk shop violins, stories, a collage of
notes, movement and shadows; portraits of
the musicians and the inner workings of
a string quartet in a performance that crosses
theatre, music, and visual art. A glimpse
of the passion, drive and circumstance that
brings these performers together on stage.
Pook's 'Speaking in Tunes' is a captivating
performance where inciting visual effects,
a marvellous score and four authoritative
personalities meet on stage, creating a
multi-faceted and theatrical account of
the creative process behind the making of
music.
Performers: Anne
Wood, Anne Stephenson, Jocelyn Pook, Kate
Shortt
Director: Graeme Miller
Music: Jocelyn
Pook
Visuals: Dragan Aleksic
Lighting Design:
Chahine Yavroyan
Production Manager: Steve
Wald
Sound: Gary Falkenthal
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"Jocelyn Pook's ostensibly classical
string quartet quickly put the music
stands aside and quite literally,
since they wandered around on the
stage Ð entered into Schubert's and
Bach's music with their own personal
narratives.
The musical use of language did the
rounds of both the amusing and the
tragicomic. The four women talked
and played about themselves. The pulse
was soft and minimalist. Melting,
cohesive and musical in its repetitions
and developments. Here the theme of
repetition that the Austrian Bernhard
Lang works with so dryly was brought
to life. The video clips on the white
cloth walls of the scenery were beautiful,
and the four strings entered into
a dialogue with them. With a mixture
of recorded and live sound, the performance
delivered just the kind of talking
music that the title Speaking
in Tunes promised... Pook's
performance reached up Ð or rather
in Ð to touch on much more important
levels."
Thomas Michelsen, Politiken
05.06.03
"The four girls filled Turbinehallerne
with a quiet poetry"
S¿ren Schauser, Berlingske Tidende
06.06.03
"...this show is both humorous and
poignant and plays constantly with
the audience's expectations.....I
felt I had seen something very new,
very exciting and highly enjoyable"
Mathew Gostelow, Bury
Free Press
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Sunday 12th October 7.30pm
Layard Theatre
Canford School
Canford Magna
Wimborne
Dorset BH21 3AD, UK
Box Office Number: 01202 847 525
Friday October 24th
Michael Tippett Centre
Bath University
Bath, UK
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Wednesday 18th February
New Moves International Festival
The Tron
Glasgow, UK
Box Office Number: 0141 552 4267
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30th May
Chard Foundation of Women in Music
Warehouse Theatre
Ilminster, UK
3rd & 4th June
Turbinehalle
Copenhagen, Denmark
6th June
Salisbury Festival
Salisbury Playhouse
Salisbury, UK
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Arts Council funded UK tour
16th & 17th May
ICA, London
19th May
Bury St Edmunds Festival
Theatre Royal, Bury
St Edmunds
22nd May
QEH Theatre, Bristol
23rd May
The Phoenix, Exeter
25th May
Unity Theatre, Liverpool
26th May
Square Chapel, Halifax
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UK Tour funded by Eastern Arts
1st February
Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford
2nd February
St Mary-In-The-Castle, Hastings
3rd February
Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester
6th February
The Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent,
Canterbury
9th February
Old Town Hall, Hemel
Hempstead
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