“And so to bed”. 

 

Taking inspiration from JM Whistler’s famous, paintings, this universal end of day experience becomes a moment of heightened significance in Marc Brew’s four-hander Nocturne.

Transporting us to a meditative world of reflection, nostalgia and stillness and set against the background of the Thames in the Monument Gardens of Greenwich Naval College, Nocturne pulls back the sheets on exhausted embraces and near misses in the night to draw us in into an imagined world of London at dusk and the poignant intimacy of moments shared at bed-time.  Nocturne features original music by Gary Lloyd and design and dramaturgy by Luke Pell, and is a development of Marc’s work for the Liberty Festival for  Trafalgar Square in 2008.

 

Commissioned by and for Greenwich and Docklands International Festival and Without Walls, with in kind support from Greenwich Dance Agency.

 

Liberty Festival, Trafalgar Square - London

5th September 2009

2pm and 4:15pm

www.london.gov.uk/mayor/equalities/liberty

Platform 4 Piccadilly - Manchester

Piccadilly Gardens

Friday 18th September 2009 - 6pm & 10pm

Saturday 19th September 2009 - 1pm & 5pm

www.xtrax.org.uk

The Bristol Do Festival

Portland Square, St Pauls - Bristol

Saturday 26th September 2009

Sunday 27th Septemer 2009

www.thebristoldo.com

www.withoutwalls.uk.com          www.festival.org