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Contact: She’s the Cultured One! at the Free Fringe York, June 2011. The Spoken Word presents Rose Drew and Tanya Nightingale in She’s the Cultured One! as part of the Edinburgh Festival Free Fringe. This show is the amalgam of two very different poetic styles: Tanya, the archetype of English decorum, and Rose, a rough and ready, scrappy American, interact, reading alternate groups of poems, following a sinuous theme yet demonstrating very different poetic styles. On the one hand, a polite dinner table evisceration; of nursery rhymes, biblical stories, Dickens, disaster and English mythology; and on the other, an in your face commentary on the irony of modern life, children and separation, getting older and latter day love; the study of ourselves both now and throughout history. These almost too serious topics are presented with a humour and lightness of touch that ensures that the audience is left begging for more. Tanya’s well-crafted work and Rose’s brash, down to earth tell it as it is, contrast and complement one another to create a unique and unusual show. On their own, each of these ladies is an acknowledged talent: together they are hauntingly devastating. Rose Drew, with her husband Alan, hosts the York Spoken Word, a poetry and prose Open Mic that occurs monthly in the City of York. She is a bio-anthropologist, which is a long word to say that she studies the human skeleton and links what she sees with an individual’s life and times. In this capacity she has appeared professionally on radio and television. As a poet she is well known; in New York and Connecticut where she has appeared on community TV, performed with arts and dance groups and read as far south as Miami, Florida; the Yale Beinecke Library; has been published by Yale’s Palimpsest Arts Journal and by the Connecticut Poetry Society. She won the 2010 Malton Festival poetry prize. Her most recent collection from Fighting Cock Press, Temporary Safety, has been well received. Tanya Nightingale has lived in York since 1997, where she first began directing theatre. She has collaborated with Richard Stilgoe at the Orpheus Centre Studio theatre. Tanya won the Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition with Eve, a poem featured in the current show; has been broadcast by Radio Ryedale and on Radio 4; and performed with the Real People’s Theatre for several years. In addition to regular readings around York;and the York Literature Festival. Tanya has been published by Poetry Nottingham and by Stairwell Books; is a regular reviewer for Dream catcher, a prestigious international poetry and arts periodical. The Spoken Word is an Open Mic. for poets and authors that gathers on the First Tuesday of every Month at 7.30pm in the conservatory of the Exhibition Hotel in Bootham, York. The Spoken Word caters to Poets, Authors and songsters, and has attracted a powerful group of fantastic poets and writers, including the Hon. Hugh Bayley, MP. The Spoken Word has brought visitors from across the UK and from as far away as Australia. York itself is a nurturing and deep well of writing talent. Stairwell Books, the publishing arm of The Spoken Word is flourishing with numerous very successful anthologies and collections. Anthologies that include some of the poems featured in She’s the Cultured One! are The Exhibitionists, The Green Man Awakes, frisson and Along the Iron Veins. Further information can be requested by emailing yorkspokenword@yahoo.co.uk. Web Sites: |
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