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The Happy Prince
Sue Casson's

'There can be no more charming
and radiant a show at the fringe this year'
A Younger Theatre

Song cycle celebrates birth of modern human rights
Oscar Wilde's enduring story of how a statue prince and migrating swallow redeem the poverty of a city is brought imaginatively up to date by a cast of four. This enchanting production explores how a tale is told, with original music and magic, bringing alive for the audience all the "tricks of the trade".

Inspirational quotations from his speeches, autobiography and previously unpublished letters are woven with Sue Casson’s ethereal musical settings of poetry he found inspiring.
Inspirational quotations from his speeches, autobiography and previously unpublished letters are woven with Sue Casson’s ethereal musical settings of poetry he found inspiring.
'Music and art capture the spirit of universal human rights'
Francesca Klug OBE


‘a fine tribute to an idealistic and important figure'
ThreeWeeks
The story so far


Dornoch Cathedral
13:00
Wenseday 4th October
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Liverpool Museum
16:00
Thursday 14th October


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Launch of Kilmuir Papers
10 DECEMBER 2013
Choral settings of Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets sung by a specially assembled Freedom Choir with readings from Maxwell Fyfe's papers performed at St Matthews Westminster.
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Liverpool Museum
16:00
Thursday 14th October


Dornoch Cathedral
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Dornoch Cathedral
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Wenseday 4th October
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Liverpool Museum
16:00
Thursday 14th October


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Dornoch Cathedral
13:00
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Liverpool Museum
16:00
Thursday 14th October


Dornoch Cathedral
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