Eloquent Protest





Eloquent Protest is a special event for Remembrance Sunday that fuses music, poetry, and drama into a moving reminder of the price of war. Conceived as an artist’s response to the human cost of conflict we are honoured once again to welcome veteran anti-war campaigner and former MP Tony Benn to host this event alongside a host of distinguished artists.

In 2007 Tony and Roy were joined by a host of distinguished artists including actors Janie Dee, Rupert Wickham, John Guerrasio, Sam Ellis, Dan Willis and Noreen Kershaw, singers Peter Straker, Johnnie Fiori, Nigel Cliffe (baritone, Royal Opera House), Fiona MacDonald, (mezzo, Scottish Opera), poet David Harsent and pianist Charlotte Forrest.

This production follows in a tradition of artistic protest against war. Before WW1 most epic poems on war did not even give soldiers a name. From Owen, Hardy and Sassoon onwards poets, writers and musicians have articulated war in human terms speaking out with passion and eloquent protest against soldiers being treated like cannon fodder and civilian casualties as mere ‘collateral damage’.

Contemporary musicians Pablo Casals and Nina Simone, orator Martin Luther King, journalist James Cameron, poets Adrian Mitchell, Pablo Neruda, David Harsent and Benjamin Zephania, have all expressed in different ways, the loss and sacrifice of war. Along with a whole generation of new Iraqi poets, they have added their voices to those of innocent civilians like Anne Frank and the children of Terezín who yearned for a peaceful world through their words and music.

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Introduction:
Tony Benn

Singers
Rosemary Ashe
Sally Burgess
Charlie Dore
Johnnie Fiori
Fiona MacDonald
The Manchester
Lesbian & Gay Chorus
Nasrin Parvaz
Annette Reis-Dunne
Andrea Roberts
Peter Straker

Writers
Stella Duffy
Leslie Forbes
David Harsent
Ben Mellor
Shelley Silas
Lemn Sissay

Actors
Janie Dee
Sam Ellis
John Guerrasio
Loveday Smith
Will Strange
Two’s Company
Rupert Wickham
Dan Willis
Chris and Olly

Musicians
Julian Littman (MD)
Neal Thornton

Directors
London: Caroline Clegg
Nepal: Hazel Roy

Special Guests
Mende Nazer
Julie Nicholson


Trafalgar Studios



www.feelgoodtheatre.co.uk

Event sponsors & supporters:
The Stage Door Foundation
Dave Kirkwood Studio
J. S. Dutton

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