Venue: Broad Lawn, Lower Row, Holt, Nr.Wimborne, Dorset. Grid Ref SU 043 047
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Flier By Hook or By Crook - a Play in the Wood
Venue: Broad Lawn, Lower Row, Holt, Nr.Wimborne, Dorset. Grid Ref SU 043 047
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As part of the Holt Forest Project, Wimborne Community Theatre’s new site specific production; By Hook or By Crook - a Play in the Wood, will be taking place in Holt Forest, this weekend; 8th, 9th and 10th July 2004. Performances start at 7.45pm, with an additional matinee performance on Saturday10th at 2.30pm. Why not come early with a picnic and enjoy the pre-play fair.
Regular members of WCT have been joined by local children and adults to create a performance based on the stories, legends and history of the Holt Forest, one of few surviving areas of ancient English woodland. With the support and assistance of English Nature who manage the forest for the National Trust, Wimborne Community Theatre, with Artistic Director Tony Horitz and Helen Porter of Voiceworks, have devised a production which aims to question the value and place of woods in our lives today.
Visual artist, Tom Hall, has made subtle changes to the understorey of the wood and created sculptures to surprise, delight and stimulate renewed engagement with our thoughts and feelings about what woods mean.
Based on personal reminiscences of members of the local community, real life events and stories about happenings in the woods, the performance uses music, song and drama to weave a story around children lost in the wood who encounter characters and events across half a millennium. Using both past and present the performance conjures the magical, mysterious and sometimes malign qualities of our experience of the woods.
As interconnected stories unfold the audience will follow the performance deeper into the wood, finding themselves beneath the canopy of ancient oaks that were witness at first hand to the history and human drama which the performance evokes. Expect hushed voices, the rich smell of leaf mould, fading light and lengthening shadows. Moments of revelry, noises in the undergrowth, sudden drama and evocative song.