"Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-sort"
Written & performed by Jan Carey
"Moving and extremely memorable" ***** BroadwayBaby.com
"Heartbreaking" **** The Stage
"A tour de force!" Dame Sarah Connolly
A celebration of the lifelong friendship between Ivor Gurney, the great poet/composer known as the ‘English Schubert’, and Marion Scott, violinist, ethnomusicologist and champion of women musicians.
It was to Marion Scott that Gurney sent his music and poetry from the trenches with war raging around him. The horror of war in the trenches coloured his writings. Yet after being gassed in the Battle of Passchendaele, Gurney’s slow deterioration into madness truly showed that despite class differences, Scott and Gurney forged an enduring friendship that withstood illness, despair, and early twentieth century mental asylums.
Directed by Michael McCaffery, the story is brought to life through the rich material of Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott’s memories, poems and letters, interweaved with some of Gurney’s most loved songs from the recordings of Ian Partridge, tenor and Jennifer Partridge, piano