At Roundwood House
On September 8th 2024
Compiled by Michael James Ford and Philip Dodd
Performed by Susannah De Wrixon, Michael James Ford, Kyle Hixon and the Delamaine String Quartet
And featuring photographs and video by Brendan Keogh
The Company of Trees celebrates our long and complex relationship with the forest world through literature and music. Using some of the great poetry, prose, music and song that trees have inspired over the centuries, the show explores their emotional, aesthetic, environmental and philosophical impact on our daily lives.
The spoken word element will feature the work of such writers as Seamus Heaney, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Clare, Mary Oliver, Herman Hesse, John Muir and Geraldine Mitchell, set alongside music by Natalia Hatz, Frank Bridge and Ryiuchi Sakamoto and interspersed with songs from both the traditional and classical repertoire.
The show will also feature striking photographic and video images by Brendan Keogh, including drone shots of native forests.
The Company of Trees will be performed by the actors, Michael James Ford, Susannah De Wrixon and Kyle Hixon, alongside the Delmaine String Quartet and has a running time of approximately one hour. It promises to entertain, inform, provoke and, above all, raise awareness of a relationship that all too often can be taken for granted.
“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.” Albert Schweitzer.
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