Hearing Voices, Jocelyn Pook's remarkable work examining changing perceptions to mental illness, is being revived at the Print Room at the Coronet, Notting Hill from 12 to 15 July 2017. Directed by Emma Bernard with lighting by Chahine Yavroyan, the piece will be performed by Melanie Pappenheim (soprano), Susi Evans (clarinet), Preetha Narayan (violin), Jocelyn Pook (viola) and Laura Moody (cello). The performances will be accompanied by art installations by Dragan Aleksic.
Inspired by Gail Hornstein's 2009 book Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness, Hearing Voices focuses on five moving stories - Jocelyn Pook's mother, her great aunt, the seamstress Agnes Richter and artists Julie McNamara and Bobby Baker. Pook's great aunt spent 25 years in an asylum, possibly to save her family the embarrassment of her re-entering society and Pook's mother wrote a novel about her own breakdown and horrific medical treatment. Through these and the other stories, the piece looks at the changing perceptions of mental illness – hysteria, madness, dementia, psychological disturbance - through the bewilderment, embarrassment and stigma associated with it.
Hearing Voices was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and premiered at the Southbank Centre in 2012, and was most recently revived at Tête à Tête Opera Festival in 2015
Full details from the Print Room website.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts this month
-
Handel: Semele - Pretty Yende, Niamh O'Sullivan (Photo: Vincent Pontet) Handel: Semele ; Pretty Yende, Ben Bliss, Alice Coote, Brindley ...
-
Britten: Peter Grimes ; Mark Le Brocq, Emma Bell, Mark Stone, Eugene Dillon-Hooper, Matthew Bawden, Rhian Davies, Oliver Heuzenroeder, Justi...
-
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor - Tabitha Reynolds (ghost), Jennifer France - Opera Holland Park (Photo: Ali Wright) Donizetti: Lucia di La...
-
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes - Andreas Wolf, Cappella Mediterranea, Chœur de chambre de Namur, Structure Rualité, Leonardo García-Alarcón - T...
-
What about blowing the box to pieces: composer Eímear Noone on writing for video games, films and TVEímear Noone (Photo: Andy Paradise) Dublin and LA-based composer Eímear Noone is known for her scores for video games, films and TV. She re...
-
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore - Martins Smaukstelis & chorus - St Paul's Opera (Photo: Julian Guidera) Donizetti: L'Elis...
-
Verdi: La Traviata - Alison Langer, Ellie Edmonds - Opera Holland Park 2025 (Photo: Ali Wright) Verdi: La Traviata ; Alison Langer, Matteo...
-
The Murdock-Whitney House, Winchendon History & Cultural Centre Andrew Arceci is an American viola da gamba, violone, and bass player w...
-
Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti - Charles Rice, Allison Cooke - Buxton International Festival (Photo: Genevieve Girling) Leonard Bernstein: Tr...
-
Rehearsal for Uprooted - Garsington Opera Youth Company On 29 July 2025, Garsington Opera Youth Company joins forces with Sinfonia Smith Squ...
No comments:
Post a Comment