Laurie Lee’s Rich Memoir
of Childhood and Awakening
The Last Witness to a Lost Time
… Violin, Guitar, Voice, Spoken Word
Capturing Laurie Lee’s richly descriptive language in a powerful narrative, coloured with a feast of music, ARKangel’s ‘Cider with Rosie’ explores Laurie’s much-loved memoir of childhood in an age of dramatic social change … the damp, cramped Cotswold cottage, the rural poverty following the First World War, an explosion of pigeons, Er down under the Varmint and his never to be forgotten encounter with Rosie Burdock!
Through Spoken Word, Violin, Guitar and Song, ARKangel’s recent programmes have been described as ‘Spellbinding’, ‘Utterly Sublime’, ‘Thought Provoking’, with ‘Mesmerizing Storytelling’.
Interwoven with Haunting Traditional Song and the Music of Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Elgar Debussy, Holst …
Having performed in venues and festivals across the UK, ‘Lullaby of Andalusia’ was premiered at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall as the scene setter for Paco Peña’s ‘Requiem Flamenco’ and ‘Histoire du Tango’ was performed to a sell-out crowd at the prestigious Three Choirs Festival.
ARKangel’s Laurie Lee programmes will soon be touring as part of the Arts Council funded 2024/25 Rural Touring programme, Live and Local.
Future dates
22 April 2025 Bear Pit Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks
3 May 2025 Cygnet Theatre, Exeter, Devon