Greenlight Music Theatre Company et al. in Toynbee Hall, East End of London - 1992

from Spitalfields Festival 1992 Evaluation: Education and Community Programme, page 13:

[the listening experiences collected in the evaluation report were anonymous]

 

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Mark Lintern Harris and Simon Foxley, Spitalfields Festival 1992 Evaluation: Education and Community Programme, p. 13. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1635784041485 accessed: 6 October, 2024

location of experience: Toynbee Hall, East End of London

Listeners

Listening to

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songs composed by retired people
written by Toynbee Hall retired residents and day visitors
performed by Toynbee Hall retired residents and day visitors

Experience Information

Date/Time 1992
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Notes

The listening experiences are responses of retired residents and day visitors at Toynbee Hall about their collaboration with the Green Light Theatre Company to create and perform a piece of music theatre over a two-day period. The end result was not a unified piece of music but a selection of songs written by participants guided by Green Light Theatre Company artists Mary King, Stephen Langridge, Timothy Yealland, Daryl Runswick and poet Jo Shapcott. Few of the participants had experience of vocal, dramatic and writing skills. An evaluation of the project comments that ‘the true value of this work is difficult to quantify but the songs […] speak for themselves. It is quite clear that the experience was memorable and for some participants deeply significant’.


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