Plays & Performances
Symonds in Davos - University of Bristol, Special Collections (DM377)
‘In the Key of Blue’ – poem and song lyrics,
with music composed by Val Regan:
based on an essay by John Addington Symonds (1840-93),
a closeted gay man who fell in love with a Venetian gondolier –
installed as a soundscape in Sheffield's Millennium Gallery,
heard by an estimated 28,000 people.
(In collaboration with Amber Regis,
University of Sheffield Festival of Mind,
University of Bristol, and Museums Sheffield)
‘In the Key of Blue’ – poem and song lyrics,
with music composed by Val Regan:
based on an essay by John Addington Symonds (1840-93),
a closeted gay man who fell in love with a Venetian gondolier –
installed as a soundscape in Sheffield's Millennium Gallery,
heard by an estimated 28,000 people.
(In collaboration with Amber Regis,
University of Sheffield Festival of Mind,
University of Bristol, and Museums Sheffield)
Photo: Ange Andrassy
Re/Sisters: Façade for the Twenty-First Century –
www.outofthearchive.co.uk/re-sisters
play script and song lyrics,
with music by Val Regan:
about the lives and war-time resistance
of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore,
avant-garde artists and lovers,
during the Nazi occupation of Jersey.
Directed by Jelena Budimir,
with Emma Prendergast as Claude Cahun,
Poppy Allen-Quarmy as Marcel Moore,
Liz Kitchen as Older Cahun,
performed to sell-out audiences
in Sheffield’s Yellow Arch Studios, November 2021
(In collaboration with Jersey Heritage Archive;
funded by Arts Council England)
‘a tremendous achievement’
Both performances were produced under the auspices
of Out Of The Archive, a community-interest company
I co-founded with Val Regan in 2019,
to bring LGBT+ lives out of archives into public spaces.
https://www.outofthearchive.co.uk/
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