Having seen ‘Elegies’ before, once again
thanks to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and enjoying it, I bought the
CD. Having listened to it several times over the past couple of months
was looking forward to seeing it again. Added to that was having watched
the R S A M D’s other production ‘Yeti! – An Abominamusical’ and
was relishing the prospect of seeing the same cast in a very different
show.
Elegies takes as its inspiration The AIDS
memorial quilt founded in 1987. The quilt
is an ongoing community arts project in which “blocks” measuring
approximately 12 feet square, each block made up of eight individual 3ft
by 6ft panels sewn together, every one of these colourful panels
celebrates and memoralizes the life of a person lost to AIDS, now
consisting of more than 40,000 panels.
Elegies highlights the life stories of a tiny,
yet broad selection of these people and tells there life stories through
prose and songs.
The cast is alphabetically Erin Breen, Pamela
Byrne, Sabrina Carter, Paul Daniel Cloeter, Carmille Devine, Scott
Garnham, Herve Goffings, Hannah Hammond, Simon Miron, Daniel Curtis
Moser, Chris Will and Jason Zinger. The talent of this cast is
undoubtable, having already seen them on display in Yeti! In contrast
with the fun of that show, the solemnity of this one displays their
ability to perform prose, watch their raw acting abilities and are able
to listen to their pure singing voices.
These performers could easily be the stars of
stage and screen in the future and we get the pleasure in seeing them
before they go further in their chosen careers.
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Dates
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8,10,12,15,17,19,22,24,26 August 2006
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