I am Struan Leslie the Director of Song of Songs – a staging of the 22nd book of the old testament The Song of Solomon.
This blog will be a bit like a journal of the production and the processes and collecting of bits and pieces. We are essentially devising a new piece of movement based theatre for The Swan here in Stratford upon Avon. – (though it would be nice if it had a life beyond it's three shows).
The movement ideas will all come from the text – the sensations more than literal explanations. The cast will be actors and not dancers though my work is very much about blurring those boundaries. The cast will be 4 women and 3 men.
February 16, 2012
As the piece is called Song of Songs I suppose I should be thinking about singing. However the text in all its richness seems song enough in some ways.
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February 14, 2012
Well it's week three in the Song of Songs house. And a tough one too.
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February 11, 2012
So here we are just off Russell Square at the side of the Hotel Russell, in the heart of London's Bloomsbury. This beautiful building is covered in 'tea with milk terracotta'.
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February 11, 2012
On the wall of the rehearsal room we have the entire text.
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February 10, 2012
It's now week two of rehearsals and so much for blogging a little everyday. Apologies but it was all I could do to eat and think.
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February 7, 2012
On the green chain walk in South East London there is an 'inclosure' of deer – they look like they are white hart and roe deer.
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February 6, 2012
So having said I wouldn't video in the church, I could not resist all these sheep – the image is so strong in the text as well as being a bit strange to our ears – the comparison of teeth to sheep! We will, I am sure, find a reason why that is so.
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February 1, 2012
Simply put, this is about time. This man, Richard Streatfielde Greene, died in 1601. There is the use of language – English and not Latin in a church. The time is coming.
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January 31, 2012
While out walking in Kent in the late summer, we walked past a number of buildings, churches, and houses that would have been there before and since the creation of the King James Bible.
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January 31, 2012
6:2 'My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.'
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