A collaborative project with readings from selections of Shakespeare's oeuvre, accompanied by piano and violin and these animated images. Scroll down to see more.
The violinist David Le Page composed a magical score, used in this production, based on this image of the Shakespearean spirit concocting a mighty tempest.
The watery grave of the tragic heroine.
. . . Here’s flow’rs for you:
Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram;
The marigold, that goes to bed wi’th’ sun,
And with him rises weeping; these are flow’rs
Of middle summer, and I think they are given
To men of middle age. Y’are very welcome . . .
. . . O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities;
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give;
Nor aught so goo but, strain’d from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime’s by action dignified. . .