Derry poets US bound
Derry poetry and performance group, Scream Blue Murmur, travel to the Minnesota Fringe Festival next week to perform their show 'The Morning After The Summer of Love.'
It is the second time the five poets will perform at this internationally acclaimed festival.
‘Morning after...’ runs from July 31st to August 9th and Aisling Doherty of Scream, describes it as: “Humourous, irreverent, thought provoking and tackles the legacy of ‘68, the year of civil rights, riots, revolution, sexual freedom and women’s liberation.
”We concentrate on the 1968 riot revolution, the ripples of which are still being felt now. We thought we’d add some things about Nick Griffin so we are reflecting stuff that happens now as well as those that shaped the modern day.
“We all come up with the material seperately then spend some time working it into a show.
“We took the subject and read, researched, got angry, sad and motivated and produced a month’s worth of material.
“Many late nights followed and poems were in and out of the show. “We ate and slept ’68 for months until eventually the notebooks became performance.
“It takes just as long to select the work and to put it in the right order as it does to write the material.
“We want the audience to slip seamlessly from one poem to the next. It makes the unexpected jolts all the more effective.”
The group are not in receipt of any Arts Council grants and have to finance their tours themselves.
Having formed in 2006 they have toured Australasia, the USA, Asia and Ireland. In 2007 they stunned Minnesota audiences and were the only show to receive five stars on every audience review.
“We were there two years ago and had such a good time we thought we would have to go back. It is a case of promoting literary tourism also as we hope to invite poets back to Derry to perform and see Northern Ireland first hand.”
More information on Scream Blue Murmur is available from -
www.aislingdoherty.com
www.myspace.com/icklepet
www.myspace.com/screambluemurmur
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