Why are we doing Eloquent Protest III?




ELOQUENT PROTEST is directed and produced by Caroline Clegg, Artistic Director of Feelgood Theatre Productions in Manchester. It was originally conceived as a special Remembrance Sunday event with fellow producer Hazel Roy to underpin Caroline’s 2006 production of NOT ABOUT HEROES at Trafalgar Studios. She was encouraged by the initial response in that first year to repeat the exercise in 2007, when the audience very quickly filled up the smaller Studio Two, leading to this year’s promotion to the venue’s large space.

Says Caroline, “For years artists, writers and poets have raised their voices in eloquent protest against the terrible cost of war. They have spoken with passion against the warmongers who treat soldiers like cannon fodder and civilian casualties as mere statistics. As a theatre director, I seized the opportunity to bring together the eloquent protestors of today in what I hope is becoming an important and meaningful fixture in the London theatrical calendar.”

In addition to this year’s London production, a separate version of ELOQUENT PROTEST has been selected as the UK entry to open the Kathmandu International Theatre Festival on 12 November. Three of the London cast will be joining director Hazel Roy to perform this event in Nepal. “In a country which has just survived its own civil war, this production should be particularly apt,” says Hazel.



Why?

Because 90 years on not much has really changed, and I could not forgive myself if I did not keep trying to use my art to promote peace.

Caroline Clegg, director.

“I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust”

S. Sassoon, July 1917


 

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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


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

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