Performance

Venue	Southbank Centre
	Other spaces: Royal Festival Hall, RFH, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Tuff Nutt Jazz Club
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	20th July 2014
To	20th July 2014
When	19:30
Prices	From £12.00. To £15.00.
What is currently on at Southbank Centre (V423)

50 Greatest Love Poems

T0887182644
Hear fifty of the greatest international love poems from the last 50 years. In this unprecedented event, the Royal Festival Hall stage will be filled with a cast of 50 leading actors and poets from across the globe to form an orchestra of readers, each reading one of the greatest love poems from the last 50 years. Poems have been selected from 30 countries around the world, from Saint Lucia to Iraqi Kurdistan and there will be readings in Arabic, Turkish, Macedonian and Tamil, with English translations. Poems will include Celia, Celia read by the subject of the poem, Adrian Mitchell's second wife Celia Hewitt, and The Present, read by Michael Donaghy's widow Maddy Paxman.

Archive :: production:T0887182644, poetry:S0418469929, venue:V423

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Royal Festival Hall

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Company

Performer	Harriet Walter
Performer	Linton Kwesi Johnson
Performer	Ray Fearon
Performer	Don Paterson
Performer	Alice Orr-Ewing
Performer	Guy Paul
Performer	Imtiaz Dharker
Performer	Hubert Burton
Performer	Sasha Dugdale
Performer	Rachel Shelly
Performer	Sujata Bhatt
Performer	Emily Bruni
Performer	Patsy Ferran
Performer	Nikola Madzirov
Performer	Siobhan Redmond
Performer	Warsan Shire
Performer	Chipo Chung
Performer	Noma Dumezweni
Performer	Amjad Nasser
Performer	Claire Rafferty
Performer	Sabrina Mahfouz
Performer	Neet Mohan
Performer	Kutti Revathi
Performer	Sudha Bhuchar
Performer	Katharine Kilalea
Performer	Daniel Weyman
Performer	Ashjan Al Hendi
Performer	Jessica Murrain
Performer	Chris McCabe
Performer	Branka Kati?
Performer	Tom Wentworth
Performer	Katherine Kingsley
Performer	Philip Cowell

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