Julie Nicholson

This is a piece of devised theatre based around war poetry. It uses verse from Ancient Greece to the present day, along with music, movement and art, to create a unique experience blending poetry and theatre. The production employs a variety of dramatic styles to portray the ugliness of war and the beauty and nobility of the human soul - the subjects of war poets past and present.
 

The poems in The Most Effective Drum represent the voices of the victims, perpetrators, observers and survivors of war. One by one (like waves surfacing from the swell of an ocean, or solo instruments emerging from the belly of an orchestra) these voices rise up and insist upon the individuality of their experiences, of their suffering. And then, one by one, they return to the ensemble to become an expression not only of grief’s universality, but also of the nobility of the human condition and its capacity for compassion.
 

The Most Effective Drum brings together its performers and audience in a communal Act of Remembrance. The costumes have been designed to reflect the beauty of the human soul as something which endures throughout any amount of suffering and variously incorporate purple (the colour of requiem) as a register of the many different ways in which remembrance of those lost is expressed.
 

An extract of this will be performed at Eloquent Protest III

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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



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

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