The Love of The Nightingale
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
The Rough Fiction Ensemble in association with People at Play and the Actors Centre, London.
Featuring live choral singing, percussion and a cast of 14-26 actors Rough Fiction’s Ensemble Laboratory, this ever-changing pop-up production appears at a new venue each week, with different staging and the actors swapping parts every performance.
Set against the backdrop of war, The Love of The Nightingale reveals two Athenian sisters caught in a triangle of desire and revenge in Wertenbaker’s witty and moving version of the ancient Philomela myth questioning the nature of power and what happens when people are silenced. Olivier Award winning playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker is perhaps best know for remarkable play Our Country’s Good.
**** ‘Rough Fiction push the boundaries of text and performance. You have the feeling something unusual is going on here from the moment you arrive’ (The Scotsman on Hospitals and Other Buildings That Catch Fire)
“If you like your theatre inventive and fun, this one’s for you. Rough Fiction is a new company which stages existing fictional works in contemporary, impromptu performances. In the case of The Love of the Nightingale – a little-known play about the Philomela myth by TimberlakeWertenbaker – that means a different venue each Sunday, and a cast which shuffles parts on a weekly basis in the name of different character interpretations. If that all sounds super-serious, fret not: the show is a hoot. It’s full of songs and sniggers in amidst some genuinely touching moments. This Sunday’s atmospheric venue is St Luke’s Church in Holloway; friend Rough Fiction on Facebook for news of subsequent performances in February”.
LeCool, March 16 2012
Read more about our Ensemble Laboratory. Lab members who performed in The Love of The Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker in 2011 & 2012 were:
Margaret Ann Bain, Daniel Cane, Lisa Castle, Christopher Davies, Emma Deegan, James French, Rebecca Haigh, Hubert Hanovich, Caroline Kilpatrick, Lekan Lawal, Samara MacLaren, James Richard Marshall, Lachlan McCall, Tessa Parr, Ben Pohlman, Tom Ross-Williams, Jessica Sedler, Chiara Silvestrin, Katie Sheridan, Benedict Smith, Caitlin Thorburn and Liana Weafer.
[…] we’re incredibly proud to be working with them and touring in spring 2012. Simon is touring The Love of the Nightingale with our ensemble lab actors and is also working currently at the West Yorkshire […]