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Mystery Play Rehearsal

THE BERGH APTON
MYSTERY PLAY CYCLE 2014

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Stepping into the Unknown
A small group gathered in the darkness & shivered. They sipped hot drinks, wondering what they were letting themselves in for.

Two hours later the team had bonded as a well-honed troupe of players. The first Rehearsal for the first play of the Bergh Apton Mysteries was already beginning to show we have some exciting talent on board. What is in store, we wondered, once all fifty actors take to the stage in May? The levels of inhibition had begun to fall away and the adrenalin do its work. The troupe was creating life from off the page, where lovingly Hugh Lupton had sweated long and hard to bring us a script worthy of the master. The words took on new meaning. The world was created, man and woman crafted and the begetting commenced. And David Farmer was already extracting the homegrown talent’s deepest and previously untouched strengths as his directing talents came into play.

Prepare to be amused and delighted when the four plays have fully come to life, once rehearsals are completed for the performances on 24th May, 1st June & 8th June.
Find out more on the website and twitter and facebook – and be sure you get your tickets soon. They are already selling well and there are only 200 available for each performance.

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Norfolk magazine

Extract from the February 2014 edition of the Norfolk Magazine

‘Bravo to Bergh Apton with its plans for a new, brilliant community project.

……there’s a wealth of creative and cultural events taking place in 2014. The one I’m most looking forward to is being put on by the village of Bergh Apton famed for its fabulous sculpture trails. This year it’s taking on a different challenge. A Mystery Play Cycle. On three weekends in May/June four plays based on the Legend of the Rood will be performed in the village. The audience and cast will be led by wandering minstrels through the beautiful countryside from location to location. People from 11 neighbouring villages will be involved. I live in one of them and as my thespian days are behind me I am honoured to have been given a role as one of the patrons alongside the Bishop of Norwich and the author Louis de Bernieres.

I feel so lucky to live in a part of the world where people put their time and effort into events like this. Bravo to Bergh Apton and all the other communities in Norfolk with the same adventure and imagination.’

Susie Fowler-Watt

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Susie Fowler-Watt’s Norfolk Magazine Article
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Mystery Play Art Workshop

Flowers made out of plastic bottles
Flowers made out of plastic bottles
The plastic flowers workshop
The plastic flowers workshop
The plastic flowers workshop
The plastic flowers workshop
The plastic flowers workshop
The plastic flowers workshop
The plastic flowers workshop
The plastic flowers workshop
The bottles before being transformed into flowers
The bottles before being transformed into flowers
The bottles before being transformed into flowers
The bottles before being transformed into flowers

 

Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles
Flowers made from plastic bottles

FREE CREATIVE WORKSHOP
RECYCLE PLASTIC BOTTLES INTO FLOWERS

SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY 10-3
BERGH APTON VILLAGE HALL
Open to Anyone from
Alpington, Ashby St Mary, Bergh Apton, Bramerton, Carleton St Peter, Claxton, Framingham Pigot, Hellington, Kirby Bedon, Rockland St Mary, Surlingham, Thurton, Yelverton.
(children with participating adult)
Bring empty plastic bottles(don’t worry if you have none),
Be creative for an hour or so
Recycle, Create, Go mad!
All for
BERGH APTON’S 2014 MYSTERY PLAY

Further Info: Tel 01508 480696

 

Liz McGowan lives in North Norfolk. Her work explores the ephemeral nature of our world.  Drawing inspiration from the landscape of North Norfolk, her work engages in a conversation with the details and the processes that combine to make a place what it is at any one time.

 “I am interested in promoting and facilitating multi-sensual  conversations between groups of people and the worlds they inhabit.  I am also part of Norfolk County Council’s Artists for Climate Change programme”.

Liz has participated in all six of Bergh Apton’s Sculpture Trails and strengthened the village’s creative instincts with wide-ranging & challenging workshops