Canticles (2002)

Music: Benjamin Britten

This co-production with Streetwise Opera was a major community project, based around workshops in five London homeless shelters, and involving many homeless participants in the final performances at Westminster Abbey.

Starring participants from:
The Dellow Centre
The Passage
Look Ahead, Victoria
The London Connection
Queen Mary Hostel

Director: Bill Bankes Jones

Producer: Matthew Peacock

Music Director: Dominic Harlan

Tenor: Daniel Norman

“I could sing a hundred praises of this superb stage premiere, yet still undersell it. This was peripatetic drama at its best: powerful, involving, sympathetic, touching, inspiring… a community-generated staging of such delicacy, refinement, wisdom and originality that Deborah Warner might have plotted every move.”
The Times

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