The Hound Within The Heart

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Common Ground Theatre Company

present

by Pat Whymark

Touring East Anglia – 30th May to 15th June 2019

Following last year’s acclaimed production of The Mariner

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“a fascinating reimagining” “a hypnotic, disturbing vocal and instrumental score…Sharp harmonies and eerie sounds create almost as much atmosphere as the poem itself “

LIBBY PURVES – THEATRECAT.COM

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Common Ground present a play with music about the life and loves of American poetic genius, Emily Dickinson.

One of the greatest & most loved of American poets, the reclusive “Belle of Amherst”, continues to be an elusive figure. In The Hound Within The Heart, we shatter the myth of Emily as a virginal neurotic, and present her as a fierce, brilliant and sexually charged writer in charge of her own destiny.

Was there a secret love in her life? What was the explosive event in her past that “stopped… existence”?

A “wild woman of words”, deeply philosophical, intensely engaged with the world, and able to write poetry that disturbs and delights us today. “My life has stood – a loaded gun”, she wrote. Told in her own words, and with the haunting music of Pat Whymark, this is a story of genius in the process of formation and in the act of overwhelming production.

We hope to inspire audiences to go to her poetry with a greater understanding of why she still works a spell in our own time. Cast includes Julian Harries, Emily Bennett and Janeena Sims as Emily.

Tickets – Adults £10/12 Under 21s/unwaged £7

Starts – 7.30pm

Running time – 2 hours (incl. interval)

www.commongroundtc.co.uk

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