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The All Is Mended play is a comedy with a serious side. A re-purposing of Shakespeare?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream?, ingeniously crafted together with lines from some of his most famous works telling a new story of life in a care home. It?s about magic and remembering, resilience and forgetting, old age and young hopes and of course love.
A shape-shifting drama, hilarious and poignant, down to earth and dreamlike, interwoven with recorded extracts from our collected conversations with elders from local care homes.
Performers Gillie Stoneham and Philip Robinson play all the parts ? come and lift your spirits and be away with the fairies for an hour.
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As well as the play, there is an exhibition of art created as part of this project.This can be seen on Tues 9 and Wednesday 10 November in the East Gallery at Ashburton Arts Centre. The third element is a book, ?A Little Bit of Magic ? care home voices in the time of Covid?, which will be available at the exhibtion and the play performance.
Old Hands @ Art:
?Devon artist Bridget Cordory has been working this year with elders in Devon?s care homes for the All Is Mended project. Together they have created artworks, helping people express their thoughts and feelings about being cared for and caring, connecting themes and memories of love, magic, and of lives well lived. Old Hands @ Art is that touring exhibition.
This exhibition is a testament to the undimmed imagination of the very old.
Everyone we spoke to about this project had a story to tell of getting old - don't we all? This is us, now, or to come.?
Philip Robinson
All Is Mended Artistic Director
?think but this and all is mended,
that you have but slumbered here,
while these visions did appear?
Puck, A Midsummer Night?s Dream
See allismended.co.uk and
facebook/allismended for more.
Ashburton Arts Centre is a community-owned and run place where the arts of all kinds happen.
It opened in 2018 in the town's old Methodist Church. Come see world-class live music, theatre, etc plus local performers, classes and community events.
15 West Street,
Ashburton,
Devon,
England,
TQ13 7DT.
07980 680052
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