The Wedding March 24, 2012

Edge Hill University Performing Arts Department 2nd Year Students
present The Wedding by
Stanisław
Wyspiańskivar, at the Rose Theatre. Translated by Noel Clark.

TICKETS ONSALE WEDNESDAY 4TH JANUARY AT 12 NOON

Tickets £8.00 / £4.50 concessions

Save £1 when you buy a ticket for performances of both The Wedding and A Dybbuk at the same time - call the Box Office on 01695 584480 to book.

British audiences are relatively unfamiliar with the
dramas of Eastern Europe, but The Wedding and A Dybbuk would be familiar in any
theatre in Poland or the Ukraine. These
are two great Symbolist dramas from the beginning of the last century.

In each,
we see a village caught between the Old World
and the New. Each play presents us with a phantasmagoria of
ghosts and spirits come to test their respective traditional
communities. In each the weight of history, of collective story, hangs heavy
over what Wyspiański
calls a "world of magic spells and charms" of prayers and curses. The subtitle ‘Between Two Worlds" could apply to
both as they explore heaven and hell, ancient and modern, in poetry, dance and
song. As Ansky says: 

"The Dead should not be excluded from any celebration".

 For details of what's on this season at the Rose Theatre, visit the Rose Theatre website.

If you're interested in screenings of great films, see this season's Short Cuts line-up in the Studio Theatre.

Interested
in studying for a degree? Edge Hill University provides degree
programmes in subjects including Film, Media,  Performing Arts, English,
Creative Writing and History. To find out more, please contact the
Course Information, Advice and Guidance Team on 01695 657000, or by
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