AND IS THIS A DREAM

The first project to be developed with both the Norwich and Brighton choirs concurrently

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It was performed at All Saints Church in Hove and at St. Mary's Works in Norwich

 

The two venues were quite different in nature - All Saints is a late Victorian gothic revival building that had been the parish church of Hove since 1892 and St. Mary's Works was a former shoe factory which has been empty since 1972, but is the subject of ambitious development plans.

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Each of the sixteen songs depicted a dreamscape. The audience were taken on a journey through buildings that have been inhabited by others for over a century, evoking the half-lit, liminal world of dreaming. The title ‘…And is This a Dream?’ is inspired by The Birds of East London by the poet Stephen Watts, a long-term Voice Project collaborator.

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