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Unsung Heroine is something different. Part play and partly a concert featuring medieval ensemble The Telling performing plaintive love songs of the troubadours and trouveres of France and foot-stomping medieval dances.
“Beautiful” Jenni Murray, Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4
To get a sense of what is different about The Telling and Unsung Heroine, you can also:
- watch the short video: http://www.youtube.com/thetellingmusic
- or listen to the Woman’s Hour broadcast and interview from October 2010: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vhfg2 (from 31 minutes in)
Unsung heroine is sung after 850 year
The remarkable and passionate imagined history
of an all-but-forgotten 12th century woman troubadour (singer-songwriter)!
7.30pm, 15th May: Brighton Early Music @ the Fringe series in the Brighton Festival Fringe
Unsung Heroine is a new performance piece which explores the imagined history of the redoubtable 12th century woman troubadour Beatriz de Dia.
You can experience Unsung Heroine as part of Brighton Early Music’s series on 5 concerts in the Brighton Festival Fringe. The performance takes place on Sunday, 15th May at 7.30pm in one of Brighton & Hove’s most beautiful and relatively little known buildings: St Andrew’s Church on Waterloo Street, Hove. The performance stars medieval ensemble The Telling who will perform the plaintive love songs of the troubadours and trouveres of France along with foot-stomping medieval dances. It also features actress Patience Tomlinson, a regular voice on BBC Radio 4, as Beatriz in a new imaginary tale by Clare Norburn. Extracts from the show were performed on Woman’s Hour last autumn where the show was described as “beautiful” by presenter Jenni Murray.
“And so I wait for Raimbaut through the years, as I waited that long night until the dawn rose. The song, A chantar, summons me time and time again……Every time I hear it, I re-live that long night and dawn. I re-experience betrayal and I wait. I always and forever wait……”
Unsung Heroine, Clare Norburn, August 2010
“Unsung Heroine is described as an imagined history because we know so little about her life,” explains the playwright and singer Clare Norburn. Clare is also singer with The Telling, as well as being Brighton Early Music Festival’s Co-Artistic Director. “The tale takes the small snippets we guess about Beatriz’s life and combines them with ideas in the extremely passionate poetry she wrote and also with key themes and ideas which occur throughout the repertoire of troubadour poetry. It’s also a ghost story in part. In the play, Beatriz is a ghostly presence watching us in 2011: she is trapped, forced forever to attend performances of her music and to relive the story of her passionate affair with troubadour Raimbaut d’Aurenga and his betrayal. The piece has its lighter moments too though – there are lots of foot-stomping dances and romantic encounters too.”
Is it a play? Is it a concert? No, it’s an imagined history with music
Blurring the boundaries of what a concert is, Unsung Heroine aims to be a different kind of performance piece: not quite just a play nor just a concert. “It exists somewhere between the two,” explains Clare Norburn. “The piece aims to transports you back in time through song, music, poetry and story-telling. We aim to help you experience the heady romantic world of the troubadours in 12th century Provence. And musically, if you love classical or folk music, then you will love the music.”
Unsung Heroine takes place on Sunday, 15th May at 7.30pm at St Andrew’s Church, Waterloo Street, Hove. The performance is part of Brighton Early Music @ the Brighton Festival Fringe series (9th – 22nd May2011) Tickets: £12 (£10 concs) from www.bremf.org.uk (no fee), Dome Box Office: 01273 709709 and Fringe Box Office: 01273 917272 and on the door
The Telling
Clare Norburn (soprano, playwright)
Layil Barr (recorders)
Joy Smith (gothic harp, percussion)
Emily Askew (medieval fiddle, bagpipes and recorder)
With Patience Tomlinson as Beatriz
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