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Award-winning composer/performer and Hastings resident Gwyneth Herbert and leading video artist Will Duke create a captivating new show that takes audiences from a blank piece of paper to the joyful sharing of voice.
Letters I Haven’t Written brings together an exceptional creative team from across contemporary music and theatre to explore, in a world of status updates and limited characters, a more meaningful way to speak with – and listen to – each other. An album release will coincide with the premiere of the live show.
And Gwyneth brings it to The Stables on Tuesday (October 16).
Reaching far beyond a nostalgic homage, Letters I Haven’t Written uses the personal act of letter writing as a vehicle to ask: How, in an age of so much noisy communication, can we be more connected?
Drawing on jazz, folk, contemporary classical music and storytelling, a collection of original new songs by Herbert form musical letters about love, loss, the body and more. Through her collaboration with video artist Will Duke, Director Susannah Tresilian and designer Tom Rogers, Herbert develops her musical letters into an exciting new multidisciplinary performance that investigates the politics of belonging.
The live performance and album feature Herbert alongside her band which includes some of the UK’s most creative musicians, and, as
part of the project’s exploration of dialogue, she will run workshops with year 8 and 9 students at Milton Keynes Academy to enable them to devise their own letter songs.
Herbert will compose a new song in response to her time with the group, to be performed as an encore at the live performance in Milton Keynes on 16 October.
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