In what may be a first of its kind, writer and podcaster Sebastian Michael is challenging himself to recite the first 77 of William Shakespeare’s 154 Sonnets by heart to a live audience on Shakespeare Day, 23rd April 2024, raising money for Arts for Dementia. This offers a rare opportunity to hear these glorious poems presented from memory, rather than merely read out. The event is free to attend in person and to follow as a webcast online. Voluntary donations encouraged. Full details are at www.sonnetcast.com. |
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An online Zoom Table Read by the New Works Playhouse of this new play that is becoming ever more urgent as the boundaries between us as human beings and digital entities get ever more blurred:
Four people (five, really, but TomTom ‘doesn’t count’) lock themselves away deep inside a mountain behind a double lock of their own design to conduct a social experiment and — more importantly — to remove themselves from the all-penetrating reach of The Corporation and to develop a code that will render that reach ineffective and therefore restore them to freedom of some kind in the network. When things go wrong, they have two options only: either all of them die together, or two of them sacrifice themselves for the others and for the code. To decide which two, they play Jass... CAST Prim: Tiggy Bayley Melody: Marcus J Foreman Xavier: Petri Stefanescu Ewan: Alex Granville TomTom: Amy Leis The Voice of the Corporation: Tiers One, Two, and Four: Eleanor Healing SATURDAY 15 MAY 1PM BST PAY WHAT YOU CAN FROM £1 DETAILS & TICKETS HERE
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Banner image: Lewis Goody as Gus in Top Story at The Old Vic Tunnels, 2013
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