The Programmes | 2023
Ed Shamwana: Human relationships to power from the absolute to the innocent
The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing – Wordsworth
Power is not a means, it is an end (from 1984) – George Orwell
A letter to Presidential Candidate, Abraham Lincoln – Grace Bedell
Alexander Harriss: Love is Awful
I Wonder – Josh Maughan
from Call me by your name – Andre Aciman
Monologue from ‘Cock’ – Mike Bartlett
One cigarette – Edwin Morgan
‘Love is Awful’ from Fleabag series 2 – Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Nina Cassells: Sin
Paradise Lost – John Milton
Beside Myself – Anthony Sher
Richard III – Shakespeare
Joseph Reynolds: Hiraeth
Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas Sonnet 33 – Shakespeare
Under Milk Wood – Thomas
Love steals us from loneliness – Gari Owen Under Milk Wood – Thomas
Joe Conroy: Liverpool
Monologue – Joe Conroy
Penny Lane – Paul McCartney
One another’s light – Brian Patten
James Crutcher: Vanity [WINNER 2023]
John Wilmot, Earl o Rochester from The Libertine – Stephen Jefferies
Sonnet 62 – Shakespeare
Mythos – Stephen Fry
Extract from Ovid – trans Wole Soyinka
Narcissus and Echo – Fred Chappell
Lily Blunsom-Washbrook: Witchcraft
Mary Warren from The Crucible – Arthur Miller
Witch Burning – Sylvia Plath
Into the Woods – James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim
Hecate’s speech from Macbeth – Shakespeare
Imogen Vickers: Economy through community, policy and solitude
Between the Wars – Billy Bragg
Margaret Thatcher, from The Iron Lady – Screenplay, Abi Morgan Sex and God – Linda McLean
Mya Pennicott: Seasonal Love
Seasons (stanza 1) – Christina Rossetti
sweet spring – e e cummings
Seasons (sta 2) – Rossetti
DNA – Dennis Kelly-Leah
Seasons (sta 3) – Rossetti
Queen Margaret, from Henry VI Act III – Shakespeare
Seasons (sta 4) – Rossetti
Time does not bring relief, you all have lied – Edna St V Millay
Maximus Evans: Awakening
The Good Morrow – John Donne
Man Running – Mike Garry
from Richard III – Shakespeare
Alice Hayes: The Journey to Adulthood
I like to wander off alone – Annette Wynne
The Perfect Day – Kara Smith/Drama Notebook Since Childhood – Joseph Arnone
Youth – Edgar A Guest
Ben Borthwick: Nostalgia
Piano – D H Lawrence
from Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
The Silent Drive – Ben Borthwick
from Book 3: Residence at Cambridge – William Wordsworth
Cradle – Ben Borthwick
from A Month in the Country – J L Carr
The Deepest Blue – Ben Borthwick
Juniper Thomas: The pact of love and the promise of grief
If we love, we grieve – a letter by Nick Cave
When Death Comes – Mary Oliver
A Man called Ove – Fredrick Backman
