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Trine Garrett

Heather Larmour

Sitters' Stories: Strandgade 30 by Elizabeth Kuti

Sitters' Stories

Strandgade 30 by Elizabeth Kuti

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What is the secret that Vilhelm Hammershoi’s wife Ida is hiding from us and her husband?

4 Extra Debut. What is the secret that Vilhelm Hammershoi’s wife, Ida, is hiding from us – and from her husband? Read by Trine Garrett. From February 2015.

Captured in a moment in time with faces forever staring at them and fingers ever pointing, the sitters from some well-known paintings get a chance to escape from the canvas, set the story straight, or tell us their particular version of the story behind the image.

Characters from famous paintings finally get a chance to tell their story in this series of readings from Elizabeth Kuti, Sophia Hillan, and Niall Williams. 

Strandgade 30 by Elizabeth Kuti

Painting: Hammershoi’s Interior, 1899, National Gallery London.

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/vilhelm-hammershoi-interior

Vilhelm Hammershoi’s sparse interior of the home he shared with his wife Ida – Strandgade 30 - shows Ida with her back to us.  But could it be that she is holding something, something obscured from our view?  Writer Elizabeth Kuti ponders the secret that Ida is hiding from us – and her husband.

Writer ..... Elizabeth Kuti
Reader ..... Trine Garrett
Producer ..... Heather Larmour

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