The Journey Between Us

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THE JOURNEY BETWEEN US

Lost Things narrator and solo flute A Temporary Matter narrator Reflection I ensemble What We Talk About When We Talk About Love narrator Reflection II ensemble The Silence of Mrs Iln narrator Reflection III ensemble

THE CONCEPT The Journey Between Us is a music-theatre piece conceived as a dialogue between music and narrative stories. The music forms an imaginative framework and response to the stories; without being merely a soundtrack, it provides points of reflection within the performance. The music encourages the audience to make connections between the stories and their shared themes. Both the music and the stories have their own separate coherence but by inhabiting the stage together the audience is taken on a journey that traverses both worlds: the literary and the musical.

BEGINNINGS The idea behind this work was borne out of a love for the short story form. After attending several short story readings I was struck by the beguiling and nostalgic experience of being read to. To sit and listen to a story being read aloud took me back to childhood. It is such a wonderful experience so why do we stop doing it as adults? It is markedly different to the telling of a story through visual means such as television or film; a story read aloud puts the onus on the listener to create the world of the story in their imagination. Our modern day equivalents can be found in radio and podcasts, forms that I love dearly. However, the essential act of one person sitting and reading a story has an intimacy and immediacy that can be utterly mesmerising. The experience of listening to a story or listening to a piece of music are not dissimilar. They both require a certain presence of mind in order to find and follow the threads of meaning and of sound. In The Journey Between Us I weave together these narrative and musical threads within the scope of an evening’s performance.


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