A comic opera in three acts
Music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Libretto by Eric Crozier
Act 1
Scene 1: The breakfast room in Lady Billows' house
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's green-grocery shop
An English Opera Group production from
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
by John Hale Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
The speaker uses the sixteenth-century debate over the retention of the long bow to show how. in the history of war, even the deciding of a severely technical issue may call for an understanding of the society and ideas of the time.
Act 2
Scene 1: A marquee in the Vicarage garden
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop
DRAPER HILL, cartoonist from Boston, Massachusetts, examines the caricaturist's obsession with personality, with reference to the work of Sir Max Beerbohm and to that of James Gill-ray, whose biography he is writing.
An exhibition of Cartoon and Caricature from Hogarth to Hoffnung, organised by the Arts Council, now at Bath, comes to London on July 9.
Act 3: Mrs. Herring's shop
A Narrative Poem with an Epilogue by RICHARD MURPHY
Read by Denys Hawthorne and Richard Murphy
On a winter night in 1927, between the island of Inishbofin and the harbour of Cleggan on the west coast of Ireland, the fishing-boats were caught in a sudden storm. Sixteen men were lost from the village of Rossadillick, nine from Bonn.
