Shakespeare Songs and Scenes: Twelfth Night and Timon of Athens
The Willmore Singers
17th-18th November 2017
Victoria Methodist Church, Bristol
Selly Oak Methodist Church, Birmingham
St Francis Hall UoB Chaplaincy, Birmingham
James devised Songs and Scenes from Twelfth Night as the final project of an undergraduate module in Shakespeare and Music. The scope of the original project was to identify references to existing music in Shakespeare's play, and then put them back into the context of the play. The music ranged from rowdy catches and drinking songs to a stylised choral arrangement of William Byrd's keyboard setting of O Mistress Mine, thought to be based on the existing melody.
The original formative performance was workshopped and presented by fellow students at the University of Birmingham and included creative director Jessica Dalton, who has since taken the piece and developed it into a stand alone piece of educational theatre. In 2017 the piece was paired with Timon of Athens. Devised by Jessica, this piece used the masque by Henry Purcell for Thomas Shadwell's adaption of the play Timon the Man-Hater.
17th-18th November 2017
Victoria Methodist Church, Bristol
Selly Oak Methodist Church, Birmingham
St Francis Hall UoB Chaplaincy, Birmingham
James devised Songs and Scenes from Twelfth Night as the final project of an undergraduate module in Shakespeare and Music. The scope of the original project was to identify references to existing music in Shakespeare's play, and then put them back into the context of the play. The music ranged from rowdy catches and drinking songs to a stylised choral arrangement of William Byrd's keyboard setting of O Mistress Mine, thought to be based on the existing melody.
The original formative performance was workshopped and presented by fellow students at the University of Birmingham and included creative director Jessica Dalton, who has since taken the piece and developed it into a stand alone piece of educational theatre. In 2017 the piece was paired with Timon of Athens. Devised by Jessica, this piece used the masque by Henry Purcell for Thomas Shadwell's adaption of the play Timon the Man-Hater.