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Saturday 19 June 2010
Aldeburgh Festival
The Way to the Sea
One hundred years of Thorpeness
Netia Jones director/filmmaker
Pippa Nissen designer/filmmaker
Alan Oke tenor
Christopher Glynn piano
A reflection on the dream of Thorpeness which began in 1910, and how living on an island and our relationship to the sea has helped define Britishness.
Director Netia Jones and designer Pippa Nissen explore these ideas through Britten’s On This Island and other songs, his early piano work Holiday Diary and the documentary film The Way to the Sea.
These are woven together with archive and new film, together with interventions and installations on the beach and by the Meare, in this unique, idiosyncratic, and particularly British holiday village.
The performance starts at the Ogilvie Hall and the audience promenades, finishing at the Country Club.
Please note: The audience will be required to walk and stand for some of the performance, and routes between performance sites may be uneven. If this is likely to cause difficulties, please discuss with Box Office staff.
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Start Ogilvie Hall, Thorpeness
2pm and 4pm
Tickets £18 (under 27s half price)
Coach £4 A (1pm), B (3pm)
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Thorpeness
‘Thorpeness is in many ways unique. She stands beautifully situated, flanked by the purple heather landwards, and seawards by an orange belt of wide sand-banks – the finest sands on the Suffolk coast.
‘She is select, yet unconventional. She is not – nor ever will be – vulgarised by a pier or esplanade or – minstrels or “nosebag trippers.” Her Fairy Godmother has presented her with rights from the old feudal manor which protect her and her alumni on every side.
‘She is secluded, yet easy of access ... Her growth is the outcome of a plan carefully thought out in every detail before a single step was taken towards her sure development.’
– W.H. Parkes, ‘Guide to Thorpeness, The Home of Peter Pan’, 1912