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Poetry reading rehearsal
Location: Buckinghamshire
Tenniel and Evangeline Evans hosted a rehearsal of the poetry selected to be read at the Waller Celebration event on 9 September 2006 at St. Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield.
24 July 2006
Waller celebrations - Poetry Readings
Venue: Beaconsfield
Poetry Readers
These photographs were taken at the second rehearsal of the poetry readers, the first having taken place at the beginning of June.
Tenniel and Evangeline Evans (both experienced actors) have brought together a small group of readers, some of whom are experienced Shakespearean actors, who will bring to life the poems written by Edmund Waller.
They will form part of the Waller Celebrations concert on Saturday 9th September, 7.30pm at St. Mary and All Saints Church, Beaconsfield.
Their programme of poems is as follows:
Antiphonal readings from:
"A Panegyric to my Lord Protector"
"To the King, upon His Majesty's Happy Return"
“To the King on his Navy”
"On a Girdle"
"The Story of Phoebus and Daphne Applied"
"Of a Tree cut in Paper"
"The Fall"
"Of Loving at First Sight"
"The Bud"
"Chloris and Hylas"
"Of Tea, commended by Her Majesty"
"To One Married to an Old Man"
"To a Lady in Retirement"
"Long and Short Life"
"Translated out of the Spanish"
"Of the Last Verses in the Book"
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