Eilidh and I came across this Funeral Ode when researching the funeral of Old Abe Lincoln. It hits upon our predilection for hands, in this case evil hands, that cause events to happen. The hand, after all, is the cutting ...Read More
This film's tagline was: The wonder film of the century, about the most romantic figure who ever lived! Judge for yourself. The full film is available online at: http://www.archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln Read More
Looking into Our American Cousin - the play the Lincolns were watching when Abraham was assassinated - I discovered this useful synopsis by Timothy Noah. The full playtext is available on Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3158 ---- Our American Cousin Revisited Was the play that ended Lincoln's ...Read More
When the CD of Act V of Robert Wilson's epic the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down came out while I was at Dartington I became immediately obsessed by it. I listened to it ...Read More
A great piece of text and a great performance. Makes me think of the spate of performance apologies and exercises that seemed to be popular a few years ago. Eilidh and I did one once called Firemaster. Remember that Eilidh..? (Well it ...Read More
We are dealing with the repeated assassination of an American icon: Abraham Lincoln. Thus we want to give him the American send-of he deserves using the best funeral music going. Check out this funeral for tuba player Kerwin James: Read More
When I saw 'Bring It On' starring Kirsten Dunce last Christmas I knew that we had to work with cheerleaders in our next show. In contrast to other devastatingly sombre material (like the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, torture, the ...Read More
Eilidh and I are continuing our investigation into the life of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. He first appeared in one of our shows in 2004 and now we are looking to work with him again. ...Read More