A SPIRITUAL AND POLITICAL CHALLENGE TO THE NATION – 2010 THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY – IN THE ROOM AT THE BANQUETING HOUSE FROM WHICH KING CHARLES 1 WENT TO HIS EXECUTION. (COMBINED ARTS/SPOKEN WORD, SONG, MUSIC, DANCE & WILLIAM BLAKE’S VISUAL IMAGES FOR PARADISE LOST)
A Combined Arts Anniversary Celebration in music, dance, spoken word and Blake’s visual images for a dramatic presentation of Milton’s Paradise Lost, his sonnets on blindness and his words with Cromwell and King Charles 1, which challenged Parliament and the Nation. All performed in the setting of the King’s execution in the anniversary year of the restoration of the monarchy.
Directed and devised by Valerie Doulton including a dramatic dialogue written by Val between Cromwell, King Charles 1, King Charles 11, and John Milton’s internal and external voices.
With a buffet supper served after the performance.
Concert pianist Sam Haywood.
Richard Hansell as King Charles 1st in the dialogue Val wrote for this performance.
Dave Fishley as Satan in Paradise Lost.
Blind performer Margo Cargill speaking Milton’s sonnets on blindness.
Lucy Casson as Eve and Spencer Cowan as Adam dancing in the garden of Eden.
Lucy Casson as Eve in Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’.
Dave Fishley as Satan in Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’.
Tenor Henry Moss.
