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T0919446291Conductor Charles Hazlewood. | |
| 12 Jul 17 to 15 Jul 17 | The Coronet, Inner London :: V1163069430 listing details L0526152219 |
Composer Jocelyn Pook's great aunt Phyllis Williams spent much of her life in an asylum struggling to make sense of the voices she heard. She recorded her experiences in a series of diaries and notebooks. Hearing Voices combines Phyllis's testimony with that of four other women diagnosed with mental illness, spanning several generations: artists Bobby Baker and Julie McNamara; Mary Pook, another of Jocelyn's relatives; and seamstress Agnes Richter, who stitched cryptic texts into a jacket she wore in a German asylum at the turn of the last century. Singer Melanie Pappenheim duets live with recordings of the women's words, protests and laughter and striking visuals from Dragan Aleksic.
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