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Hymn and Cocktail Sticks - Sunday Double Bills

Hymn and Cocktail Sticks - Sunday Double Bills (Play) production archive for QTIX code T1622393113. Details of all Hymn and Cocktail Sticks - Sunday Double Bills archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S01278423944

Archive Listings

16 Dec 12
  to
17 Mar 13
Lyttelton (National Theatre)
West End, Greater London
Performance Details => Venue archive

Details

Hymn and Cocktail Sticks - Sunday Double Bills archiveHymn - Alan Bennett writes: ?In 2001 the Medici Quartet commissioned the composer George Fenton to write a piece commemorating their thirtieth anniversary. George Fenton appeared in my play Forty Years On and has written music for many of my plays since, and he asked me to collaborate on the commission. Hymn was the result. First performed at the Harrogate Festival in August 2001, it's a series of memoirs with music. Besides purely instrumental passages for the quartet, many of the speeches are under-scored, incorporating some of the hymns and music I remember from my childhood and youth.' Hymn is coupled with Cocktail Sticks, an oratorio without music that revisits some of the themes and conversations of Alan Bennett's memoir A Life Like Other People's. A son talks to his dead father as his mother yearns for a different life. It's funny, tender and sad. The pinnacle of my social life is a scrutty bit of lettuce and tomato and some tinned salmon. Mind you, I read in Ideal Home that if you mix tinned salmon with this soft cheese you can make it into one of those moussy things. Shove a bit of lemon on it and it looks really classy. Running time: 2hrs 15mins inclu. 45min interval

Cast/Performers

Alex Jennings (Alan Bennett)

Creatives/Company

Author: Alan Bennett
Company: Southbank Sinfonia (Hymn)
Sound: Mike Walker (Hymn)
Music: George Fenton (Hymn)
Director: Nicholas Hytner (Cocktail Sticks)
Design: Bob Crowley (Cocktail Sticks)
Lighting: Tom Snell (Cocktail Sticks)

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