DYCP - Season of Sorrow (2022)
Geraldine was awarded an ACE, Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant to “Discover the operatic form”, as a development of her non-text based, site-specific practice resulting in a sung voice and live music exercise Season of Sorrow in The Ditch at Shoreditch Town Hall
“After working with MA site-specific Theatre Practice students in the empty former Holloway Prison and inspired by a sense of the memories of the women once imprisoned there especially women of colour whose voices and stories have not been heard; I extracted text from Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis forming two verses and a chorus, creating an image exploring a contemporary female prisoner incarcerated in her cell imagining herself free and singing accompanied by a live cello to music composed by Felix Cross written for cello, played by Lucas Robson and mezzo soprano- Ophelia Charlesworth. At the end of the first verse the music faded into the subtle sound of the sea and gradually a video of herself singing liberated on a beach was seen projected behind her on the wall of the cell, and she sung a duet with herself imprisoned in her cell, and her liberated self on film.”
“After working with MA site-specific Theatre Practice students in the empty former Holloway Prison and inspired by a sense of the memories of the women once imprisoned there especially women of colour whose voices and stories have not been heard; I extracted text from Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis forming two verses and a chorus, creating an image exploring a contemporary female prisoner incarcerated in her cell imagining herself free and singing accompanied by a live cello to music composed by Felix Cross written for cello, played by Lucas Robson and mezzo soprano- Ophelia Charlesworth. At the end of the first verse the music faded into the subtle sound of the sea and gradually a video of herself singing liberated on a beach was seen projected behind her on the wall of the cell, and she sung a duet with herself imprisoned in her cell, and her liberated self on film.”
