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Archive listings for Untold Stories: Hymn (2014)

Work type: Play.

& Cocktail Sticks - T0928987459

Following its premiere at the National Theatre last year, West Yorkshire Playhouse is delighted to stage the first major revival of Alan's poignant, highly personal piece about love, family, music and loss from the perspective of an Armley childhood.Presented byWest Yorkshire Playhouse. Director Mark Rosenblatt. Design Amanda Stoodley. Musical Director Tom Green. Lighting Charles Balfour. Sound Adrienne Quartly. Director Kay Magson (casting). Director Oliver O'Shea (assistant). Performer Reece Dinsdale (Alan Bennett). Performer Kate Anthony. Performer John Arthur. Performer Simon Roberts. Performer Marjorie Yates. Company Ligeti Quartet.
2 Jun 14 to 21 Jun 14Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse), Leeds :: V977
listing details L557806380

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Untold Stories: Hymn archiveSimple things make the past come flooding back. For Alan Bennett in Untold Stories, it's the hymns of his childhood and a tub of forgotten cocktail sticks found at the back of his parents' kitchen cupboard. In this gorgeous double bill, Alan returns, with the help of George Fenton's stirring original score and a live string quartet, to both his childhood home and his parents' final years, exploring with wit, warmth and wisdom, the values, dreams and difficulties that shaped their lives..

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Author: Alan Bennett
Music: George Fenton

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