Live Canon's Big Olympic Warm Up - T0834377903The Olympics are fast approaching and Live Canon is limbering up! Come along for a unique celebration of the games in poetry. Hear a selection of the poems nominated to be engraved on the wall of the Olympic village. Celebrate cycling, synchronized swimming, diving, sprinting, speed walking (and plenty of sporting disasters). Hear the incredible story of the injured French athlete who lost out in the triple jump but went on to take an Olympic medal for poetry? | |
| 23 Jun 12 | Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford :: V799 listing details L1667327632 |
Around the World in 80 Poems - T0223089790Live Canon returns to Oxford Playhouse to circumnavigate the globe in poetry. With classic poems and contemporary work from every continent, this is a whirlwind romp across the planet. Haiku balloons, poems in fortune cookies, verses on maps and luggage labels...join us for an entertaining and accessible world tour of words. | |
| 24 Feb 12 | Oxford Playhouse, Oxford :: V803 listing details L0850091227 |
T0245823887Live Canon are an ensemble performing poetry, from memory, with wit and passion (and occasionally bursting into song). They are coming to the Bloomsbury with their repertoire of shows, which bring the back catalogue of poetry to life. Sit back and enjoy listening to classic poems you may know, and new gems you may not, in Live Canon s accessible and entertaining performances. | |
| 19 Oct 11 to 26 Jan 12 | Bloomsbury Theatre, Inner London :: V170 listing details L01665264080 |
Oxford Poets - T622753367This hour-long performance, created especially for Oxford Playhouse, features the work of generations of poets who have studied, lived and loved in Oxford. | |
| 12 Nov 10 | Oxford Playhouse, Oxford :: V803 listing details L135932782 |
War Poets - T1343804888How better to experience poetry than to hear it performed by actors who have worked for the RSC, National Theatre, Watermill Theatre, Royal Court and Globe Theatre? The Live Canon ensemble deliver a brilliant seventy-five minutes of the finest British war poetry from the last five hundred years including work by Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfrid Owen and Edith Sitwell, featuring live music. Age guidance 12+ | |
| 29 Jan 10 | Oxford Playhouse, Oxford :: V803 listing details L01322544493 |
Pre-Raphaelites - T01969470371Poetry from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Featuring the poetry of Christina Rossetti, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Swinburne, Elizabeth Siddal, George Meredith and others. With original music by Jerome de Bromhead Directed by Helen Eastman. Associate Direction by Robin Norton Hale Cast includes: Charles de Bromhead. Anthony Shuster.Producer Live Canon (Live Canon (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre). Director Helen Eastman. Author Robin Norton Hale (associate director). Music Jerome de Bromhead. Performer Charles de Bromhead. Performer Anthony Shuster. | |
| 17 May 09 to 1 Jun 09 | Finborough, Inner London :: V199 listing details L197397324 |
Committed - T0193654088An evening of poetry from the fine line between genius and insanity, featuring the work of John Clare, Robert Frost, Siegfried Sassoon, Charlotte Mew, Ezra Pound and others. Directed by Helen Eastman. | |
| 11 Jan 09 to 19 Jan 09 | Finborough, Inner London :: V199 listing details L260498426 |
