Date/Time
Saturday, March 17, 2018 - 2:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Corn Exchange, King Street, Ipswich IP1 1DH
Commemorating local stories from the Great War of 1914-18 and featuring ‘Eternal Light: A Requiem’ by Howard Goodall.
To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, music, dance, poetry and animation combine to create an immersive, thought-provoking and moving event. Remembering the town’s part in that conflict with personal stories of Ipswich people, both at home and on the front lines, leading up to and during wartime.
Choreographer Mary Davies, supported by DanceEast, with a community cast from across Ipswich, will enact the stories with music specially commissioned from composer Huw Morgan. The Suffolk Poetry Society and historians from Ipswich Choral Society will recreate the news and people’s experiences amongst songs from the war years.
The performance concludes with Ipswich Choral Society and Music Director Robin Walker, performing “Eternal Light: A Requiem” by Howard Goodall. The soloists are soprano Gwendolen Martin and tenor Tom Randle.
Ipswich Remembers
Saturday 17 March 2018, 2.30pm / 7.30pm
Ipswich Corn Exchange
Tickets £15 (U16s/Students £6) available from the Corn Exchange box office
Tel: 01473 433100 and online at www.ipswichcornexchange.com
(The IBC Box office booking fee of £1 per ticket is included in these prices)
Ipswich Remembers is supported by Arts Council England National Lottery funding.
