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Clare's Walk
Steve Waters
From Epping Forest to the A14 from asylum to wild-wood.
Meet activists and twitchers,
road-builders and utopians
and discover the secret landscape that lies beneath the tarmac of the A1 corridor. |
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Clare's Walk takes for its inspiration the nightmarish journey of 1841 by poet John Clare (1793-1864) from the lunatic asylum where he was incarcerated in Epping Forest to his home in Northborough in North Cambridgeshire, along the route of the A1.
Playwright Steve Waters and actor Patrick Morris re-walked the route in June 2005, looking at how the landscape has changed since Clare's day, and the development issues the entire region faces, examining the themes aired in Clare's verse in a modern context: the connection between self and environment, between ownership and dispossession.
images by Debby Besford
You can download a sample press release here.
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Saturday 18th March
7pm
invitation only
Judith E. Wilson Studio, English Faculty Building, West Road, Cambridge
Wednesday 29th March
4pm & 8pm
£7.00 / £5.00
Milton Country Park Visitors’ Centre, Milton
Reservations:
01223 237790
Thursday 30th March
7pm
£7.00
Suntrap Field Centre, Church Road, High Beach, Loughton, Essex
020 8496 3585
Saturday 1st April
11.45am & 5.30pm
£8.50 / £7.50
Pride of Place Festival at St Mary's Church Hall, Woodbridge, Suffolk
01473 211498
Monday 3rd April
8pm
£8.00
The Barn Theatre, Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City
01701 357117
Thursday 6th April
8pm
£8.50
Maltings Arts Theatre, The Maltings, St Albans
01727 844222
Thursday 20th April
8pm
£7.00
Paxton Pits Nature Reserve, Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire
01480 451568
Friday 21st April
7.30pm
£7.00
St Margaret's Church, Luddington in the Brook, Northamptonshire
01832 293505
Saturday 29th April
7.30pm
£7.00
Upwood Village Hall, High Street, Upwood, Huntingdonshire
01223 237790
Saturday 6th May
7.30pm
£6.00 / £4.00
Baldock Festival, St Mary's Church Hall, Hitchin Street, Baldock
01462 894109
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Steve Waters, Writer
A nationally acclaimed playwright; The Times described Steve's World Music as 'urgent and essential viewing'. Steve has had work staged by Sheffield Theatres, the Donmar Warehouse and Hampstead Theatre in London and is currently under commission to the National Theatre.
Plays include:
The Unthinkable (October/November 2004) Sheffield Crucible Studio; published by Nick Hern Books; World Music (Donmar Warehouse, London Feb/March2004; Sheffield Crucible,May 2003) published by Nick Hern books; After The Gods (Hampstead Theatre, London2002) published by Faber books; English Journeys (Hampstead Theatre, 1998)
TV and Radio:
Safe House BBC4 2002, The Moderniser Radio 4 afternoon play 2001
Patrick Morris, Performer
Associate Artistic Director of Menagerie, Patrick Morris trained at Exeter University before moving to the USA for nine years where credits include Henry VI at New York's Public Theatre, Edward Albee's Counting the Ways directed by Joseph Chaikin, and On the Razzle working with Tom Stoppard. Work in the UK includes site-specific projects with Wrights and Sites, and national tours with Foursight Theatre, most recently playing Jason in their production of Medea.
For Menagerie, he has appeared in The Cull by Steve Waters, Hard Sell by Craig Baxter and directed premieres of Naomi Wallace's The Retreating World and Claire Macdonald's Correspondence.
Stefanie Müller, Designer
Stefanie is Associate Director of Hoipolloi. She trained at the University of Basel and at the International School of Theatre, Jacques Lecoq, in Paris. Since co-founding Hoipolloi in 1994, Stefanie has designed and performed in all but one of the company's productions, touring throughout the UK and Europe, as well as the USA and The Philippines. Stefanie has previously worked with companies in Britain, France and Switzerland as an actress, designer and workshop leader. She designed Jack And The Beanstalk, Suitcase Full Of Stories and The Snow Egg for Tiebreak.
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For more information about Clare's Walk, please contact alex@menagerie.uk.com.
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