Readings

 

2007

 

            Two appearances at the Frome Festival: Words and Music for a Midsummer Evening at the Merlin             Theatre, and Mirth, Melancholy: Music from a Golden Age at the Great Hall, Longleat

 

 

2006

 

            Ringing the Bells for Betjeman. A Centenary Celebration. Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival

            Igor Fest – Les Noces & Oedipus Rex, Symphony Hall, Birmingham

 

2005

No Offence – An Evening of Readings and Performance of Controversial Works Through the Ages,

English PEN, Tricycle Theatre, London.

Strings in the Air, The Rudolf Kempe Society, The Other Place

Great Eccentrics … and the eccentricities of the Great, Winchester Festival

Robert Lowell: A Memoir and A Reading, Stratford-Upon-Avon Poetry Festival

 

 

2004

 

            Women in Byzantium, an evening of words and music

            Sir John Gielgud, The Centenary Gala

            Parthenon Lost, Oxford Greek Festival

 

2003

 

The Greek Trilogy at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

 

2002

 

The Greek Trilogy at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

John Clare poetry, Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival

Some Desperate Glory, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, London

 

2000

Claudius in The Ghost of Hamlet at the Guildhall Great Hall in London

Men In Scarlet in a Son et Lumiere performed at the Royal Chelsea Hospital

 

1999

Winchester Festival: The Norfolk Connection, starring Michael Pennington, Barbara Leigh-Hunt and Paul Moriarty.  Narrated, devised and directed by John Miller.

(An Historical Entertainment from Richard III and Bosworth Field through to the imprisonment and executions of the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I)

Millennial Fringe Poetry, Stratford-upon-Avon

Versailles, The Other Place

 

1997

BBC Proms 1997: Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex

 

1982

Benedict in Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict at the Royal Festival Hall

Von Weber and Mendelssohn in the Whitbread Music of London Concert at the Barbican Hall

To Cambridge With Love in aid of the Cambridge Arts Theatre Trust at the Barbican Theatre

 

1981

 

Pleasure and Repentance and The Hollow Crown for the RSC at the Fortune Theatre

 

1979

 

He That Plays the King; The Hollow Crown; Pleasure and Repentance and The Biko Inquest all for the RSC in Newcastle

 

1977

 

Shall I Compare Thee?, RSC, Dovecot Arts Centre, Stockton on Tees

 

1975

 

The Hollow Crown and Pleasure and Repentance – an international tour for the RSC

 

1968

 

It’s No Go The Merry-go-Round, A Poetry Show About Crisis at the Young Vic

 

1966

 

Stark in a reading of The Investigation by Peter Weiss

 

 

The following are Reading Programmes performed at various venues over the years.

 

The Polmear Ambache Duo

            Programmes juxtaposing readings of poetry and prose with music:

            ‘Mozart’ Music and letters from Mozart’s early and middle life.

 

 

 

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