20:30-21:05, Wednesday 25th September 2024
The Cockpit
Music and co-creator: Josh Kaye
Co-creators: Hestor Dart, Amy Kearsley, Emily Beech, Juliet Wallace
This event is part of a double bill with Senses.
There will be an online performance of this event on the 6th October.
In 1982 30,000 women held hands and formed a human chain around the US nuclear missile base, Greenham Common. Over a 10-year period there was a camp of women activists who bore witness and protested the weapons stored on the site by the NATO forces.
This piece draws on interviews from friends of the composer Josh Kaye’s grandmother and explores how she was driven to activism in her 60’s. It is a co-creation between an all-female and minority gender group of singers and instrumentalists which will explore how the voice is a key tool of protest and resistance. Throughout the work the performers will create bold and powerful vocal textures whilst telling the very human story standing up for a cause. The work will explore not only the historic importance of Greenham, but the relevance of protest in an increasingly intolerant and oppressive political landscape.
This will be a work-in progress performance of between 10 and 15 minutes which will be developed into a larger work which will be toured around sites close to Greenham in 2025.
Age range: All ages, but mostly adults
In a festival of new work, please note that shows can often overrun.
Produced by Outlier Opera
Venue: The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, London NW8 8EH.
On the same day:
Composer and co-creator: Josh Kaye
Voice and co-creator: Hester Dart
Voice and co-creator: Amy Kearsley
Cello and co-creator: Rebecca Burden
Composer and co-creator: Josh Kaye
Voice and co-creator: Hestor Dart
Voice and co-creator: Amy Kearsley
Voice and Co-Creator: Emily Beech
Voice and Co-Creator: Juliet Wallace