The York Shakespeare Project is taking time out from rehearsals for The Comedy Of Errors to perform Elizabethan songs and poems at Bedern Hall, Bartle Garth, St Andrewgate, York, Friday, September 26.
At 7.30pm, actors and singers from the project present The Passionate Pilgrim: A Late-Summer Evening of Songs & Sonnets by Shakespeare & his Contemporaries.
The evening includes Shakespeare sonnets and poems written for Love's Labours Lost and Romeo And Juliet, as well as writings by contemporaries including Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spencer and Sir Walter Raleigh. Madrigals - unaccompanied songs with an epic love theme - will be sung too.
Eight project participants, including cast members from this year's The Taming Of The Shrew and The Comedy Of Errors productions, are taking part. The aim of the evening is to highlight the Shakespearean canon outside his dramas, as well as to raise awareness and funds for the project.
Chairman Raymond Baggaley says: "This is the first time the project has used one of York's historic buildings. Bedern Hall is the sort of place we would love to use for Shakespeare plays, and we hope to put on many evenings like this too."
Tickets cost £4 in advance from TicketWorld, in Patrick Pool, tel 01904 644194, or £5 on the door, and the price includes a drink.
Updated: 09:03 Friday, September 19, 2003
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