Our twelfth blog linked to Lewisham Voices Facebook video posts.
In this weekly series, the stories, memories, poems and writing from people who lived, worked or wrote about the area of Lewisham are shared.
Mark Stevenson, artistic director of a locally based theatre company Teatro Vivo talks to Rachel New, Outreach Officer from Lewisham Library and Information Service.
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Watch the interview here
Teatro Vivo is a critically acclaimed theatre company making playful and exciting immersive shows in unusual spaces.
They tell stories in surprising ways – bring Shakespeare to supermarkets, explore The Odyssey on the streets of Deptford, or expose the truth behind the British arms trade in public squares.
The Teatro Vivos ethos - We believe everyone should experience the pure joy of engaging physically, emotionally and intellectually with a piece of live theatre.
Their new online show called The House that Slipped is set during the Covid 19 lockdown 2020. Follow the link below.
They tell stories in surprising ways – bring Shakespeare to supermarkets, explore The Odyssey on the streets of Deptford, or expose the truth behind the British arms trade in public squares.
The Teatro Vivos ethos - We believe everyone should experience the pure joy of engaging physically, emotionally and intellectually with a piece of live theatre.
Their new online show called The House that Slipped is set during the Covid 19 lockdown 2020. Follow the link below.
Teatro Vivo is run by Joint Artistic Directors Mark Stevenson and Kas Darley, who have been with the organisation since it's conception in 2004.
KAS DARLEY trained as an actress at LAMDA, graduating in 2003. She has worked extensively in theatre touring widely in the UK , Europe and South America. As Artistic Associate, Kas co-produces all our shows and has performed in many of our productions. She also came up with the original concept for Hothouse. Kas trained as a lawyer before turning to acting, and is glad that her training is occasionally of use in running Teatro Vivo.
KAS DARLEY trained as an actress at LAMDA, graduating in 2003. She has worked extensively in theatre touring widely in the UK , Europe and South America. As Artistic Associate, Kas co-produces all our shows and has performed in many of our productions. She also came up with the original concept for Hothouse. Kas trained as a lawyer before turning to acting, and is glad that her training is occasionally of use in running Teatro Vivo.
MARK STEVENSON trained as an actor and director at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and VGIK in Moscow.
He has performed as an actor for the last 26 years for numerous companies, and his directing includes work for Ampersand, Theatre Babel and GLYPT, as well as being a Learning Associate at the NT.
For Teatro Vivo, Mark has performed in most of our productions as well as directing Supermarket Shakespeare, Great British Wedding, our audio version of Evelyn’s Roots and online version of Grimm’s Collecting Agency. He is based in Forest Hill.
He has performed as an actor for the last 26 years for numerous companies, and his directing includes work for Ampersand, Theatre Babel and GLYPT, as well as being a Learning Associate at the NT.
For Teatro Vivo, Mark has performed in most of our productions as well as directing Supermarket Shakespeare, Great British Wedding, our audio version of Evelyn’s Roots and online version of Grimm’s Collecting Agency. He is based in Forest Hill.
Evelyn's Roots was written by Bernadette Russell & Gareth Brierley and created and performed by Teatro Vivo in July 2018 - Evelyn Ward, Deptford.
Evelyn’s Roots tells stories both true and imagined of people who have laid down their roots in Deptford over the last 400 years.
Evelyn’s Roots tells stories both true and imagined of people who have laid down their roots in Deptford over the last 400 years.
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| Plaque for Thankful Sturdee |
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| Deptford, South Side Of Old Flagon Row c.1890 (Thankfull Sturdee Collection) |
Meet Thankfull Sturdee, one of Britain’s first press photographers who was born on Evelyn Street, hear about the Gut Girls, discover Oluadah Equiano’s epic journey, find out what happens on Marathon day in Deptford and many other stories as we celebrate the remembered and forgotten people who may have lived in the area.
Fact and fiction are blended to bring the remarkable history of these local streets to life. These are 'stories that misbehave and change in the telling'. Below is a link to the podcast audio walk around Deptford - you can listen to the stories while following the streets they take place on the map.
http://www.teatrovivo.co.uk/evelyns-roots-audio-walk/
Video clips of the first performances of Evelyn's Roots here: https://vimeo.com/302084920
Video clips of the first performances of Evelyn's Roots here: https://vimeo.com/302084920
The abolitionist Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-1797) lived in Blackheath. His best selling non-fiction book was 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African' was one of the earliest first hand accounts of life in Africa, the horrors of the Middle Passage and enslavement. The book was an important tool in the abolition campaign and remains relevant today as a fascinating historical document and an inspiring story of success against the odds.
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| Drawing of Sayes Court by Evelyn |
The Evelyn family were lords of the manor for many generations and its most famous member, John Evelyn, the diarist, lived in Sayes Court Deptford from 1652 to 1694. The house is remembered in Sayes Court Park.
John Evelyn (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist. His diary, written from his student days in 1640, until he died was not written daily. But it provides an insight into life and events such as the execution of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell's rise, the Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London. He and Samuel Pepys, were contemporaries although Pepys wrote for a much shorter period, 1660–1669, and in greater detail.
Evelyn was a prolific author of books on theology, politics, horticulture, architecture and vegetarianism, He was known for his knowledge of trees, his treatise, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees (1664), was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for England's navy. His interest in gardens led him to design pleasure gardens, such as those at Euston Hall (Suffolk) and he transformed the gardens at Sayes Court (adjacent to the naval dockyard in Deptford) sadly no longer there.
Evelyn was a prolific author of books on theology, politics, horticulture, architecture and vegetarianism, He was known for his knowledge of trees, his treatise, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees (1664), was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for England's navy. His interest in gardens led him to design pleasure gardens, such as those at Euston Hall (Suffolk) and he transformed the gardens at Sayes Court (adjacent to the naval dockyard in Deptford) sadly no longer there.
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