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The Village and The Road archive"All human life is here, and if we cannot easily express what has been lost in the decline of rural places, we surely know it's gone." Patrick Laurie, author of Native - Life in a Vanishing Landscape The Village and The Road is a collaboration of words from celebrated writer Tom Pow with music from The Galloway Agreement, a quartet of well-known traditional musicians. Tom Pow draws on his travels for this emotive journey exploring abandonment of the countryside, refugee crises and the ‘great thinning' of the natural world. The Galloway Agreement respond sonically with their wide experiences of the musical traditions of Europe, adding drama and poignancy to the narrative. The Village and The Road is an invitation to experience a world of great beauty, but also one that carries contemporary imprints of separation, emigration and rootlessness. The play is inspired by 'the great thinning', a term coined by environmental journalist Michael McCarthy, to describe the loss of so many birds and other species which once delighted visitors to the British countryside. The Village and The Road is in turn a response to another 'great thinning': for the first time in human history there are more people living in cities than in the countryside. Many, especially the young, are taking the road out of their villages, often facing hardship and danger as they do so. The show is a portrait of the tensions that exist between the village and the road at this time of crucial change; a time 'when the village girls have no eyes/for the village boys'

Cast/Performers

Wendy Stewart (clarsach), Ruth Morris (nyckelharpa), Gavin Marwick (fiddle), Stuart Macpherson (double bass), Tom Pow, Gavin Marwick, Ruth Morris

Creatives/Company

Author: Tom Pow
Presented by(s): Tom Pow, The Galloway Agreement
Director: Matthew Zajac
Lighting: Andrew Wilson
Sound: Stuart Macpherson
Producer(s): Ruth Morris, ed Littlewood (with support from Peter Renwick)
Other: Emma Dove (digital assets)

The Village and The Road

The Village and The Road (Play) production archive for QTIX code T1560828705. Details of all The Village and The Road archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S0674178144

Archive Listings

17 Aug 22
  to
29 Aug 22
Netherbow Theatre
Edinburgh
Performance Details => Venue archive

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