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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231022T140000
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URL:https://www.lewesconclub.com/events/sweet-thames-the-london-folk-club-
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SUMMARY:Sweet Thames: The London Folk Club Project
DESCRIPTION:The Con Club is very pleased to host Sweet Thames: The London F
 olk Club Heritage Project - A Verbatim Theatre performance with Ewan Wardr
 op.\n\nExpect something folky\, familiar\, but altogether quite different.
  This is a free event thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund.\n\nBar
  from 2:00pm. Show 2:45pm to 5:30pm\n\nFREE event\, all welcome\, but you 
 will need to book here: docs.google.com\n\nThis musical Verbatim Theatre p
 erformance is set in a London folk club in the early 1960s and draws on tw
 enty-five oral history interviews recently collected for Sweet Thames: The
  London Folk Club Heritage Project.\n\nIt is written and performed by Ewan
  Wardrop\; actor\, dancer\, multi-instrumentalist and musical comedian. Ew
 an began his career as a dancer for Matthew Bourne’s dance company\, per
 forming around the world\, on Broadway and in the West End. As an actor he
  has appeared in productions for Shakespeare’s Globe\, The RSC\, The Old
  Vic\, Kneehigh Theatre and Complicite amongst many others. In 2012 Ewan w
 rote and performed in a critically acclaimed one man show on the life of G
 eorge Formby for the Edinburgh Festival. He is a member of The Ukulele Orc
 hestra of Great Britain and step dances and plays banjo ukulele with The S
 ervants Ball. He also created the experimental Morris side\, The Bo Diddle
 rs.\n\nOver six months\, Ewan has immersed himself in the Sweet Thames int
 erview recordings and transcriptions to create this one-man\, one-hour sho
 w. It is scripted almost entirely word-for-word from the actual interviews
  and all twenty-five interviewees are represented in the performance. One 
 extra interview\, recorded on-line at a reminiscence event for the project
  is also included.\n\nFind out more about the project here:\n\nhttps://sta
 rcreativeheritage.org\n\nApprox timings:\n\n2:45pm Introduction to the pro
 ject with exhibition viewing.\n\n3:30pm Floor spots from the audience (as 
 would take place in a folk club)\n\n4:15pm Interval\n\n4:30pm Ewan Wardrop
 ’s Musical verbatim theatre performance\n\n5:30pm End
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