Redcrosse
'How do we think about identity in ways that
don't reflect anxiety, fear of the other, uncritical adulation of our
past and all the other pitfalls that surround this subject? The
Redcrosse project manages to negotiate these difficulties with immense
imaginative energy and honesty: no sour notes, no attempt to
overcompensate by desperately overapologetic rhetoric, simply a
recovery of deep roots and generous vision. As much as it takes its cue
from Spenser, it's a contemporary working out of some of the great and
inexhaustible legacy of Blake, a unique contribution to what is often a
pretty sterile discussion of who we are in these islands.'
Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, UK
On the evening of Saturday the 17th of November
the Royal Shakespeare Company will be performing *Redcrosse*, the new
poetic liturgy for England and St George which Ewan Fernie
(Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) wrote with the major
poets Jo Shapcott, Michael Symmons Roberts and Andrew Motion, and the
theologian Andrew Shanks, as part of a multi-grant-winning academic
project. *Redcrosse* got considerable national press last year, in
*The Guardian*, on radio and television, and even in *The Daily Star*,
when it was performed in Windsor Castle and Manchester Cathedral. Its
RSC production in the modernist masterpiece of Coventry Cathedral will
be its most dramatic and exciting instantiation to date, taking its
audience on an exciting and affirming adventure into what England is
and could be. Don’t miss it!
For further details and tickets, please see the link below.
A book of the project will also be launched on the 17th:
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