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1st Framework /3rdthought
PARADISE PRESS RELEASE

An indoor fairground tent will contain a forty-minute visual evocation of ideas and aspects of Paradise as told to the producers by a huge cross-section of Londoners. Their voices will be heard as a troupe of actors, all over the age of 60, create, through dance, physical theatre, tableaux and conjuring tricks, a series of short and witty theatrical scenes.

Heather Webster Donald Elliott

Heather Webster                           Donald Elliott

3rdthought, the over 60's drama group and satellite of 1st Framework have been making sound recordings with people from community centres, schools, convents, markets and many other places in five London boroughs for the last eight weeks -assembling many different views of the heavenly, lost world, religious, domestic and ecstatic aspects of the idea of Paradise.

Vi Newman Richard Carter

Vi Newman                                    Richard Carter

The production team involved has been two radio producers, Jules Wilkinson and Lore Windemuth, designer Ana Jebens and choreographer Marie Lawrence together with 1st Framework's artistic director Peter Avery and producer Maxine Webster.

Lieve Carchon John Clayton

    Lieve Carchon                           John Clayton

Early workshops have taken place at Stratford Circus under the auspices of Theatre Venture. Arts Council England awarded the group and the project a grant in April 2006.

Joan Khackik Jeanie Deane

      Joan Khackik                               Jeanie Deane

Rehearsals begin in earnest in September with performances taking place in Camden, Croydon, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Westminster in November and December 2006 with a gala event involving the participants from all five boroughs in Stratford Circus in the week of December 4 –10.

Sound Tracks

1. KEVIN RUSHBY - Author of recently published book on 'Paradise'.
Click here to listen (duration: 4'00)

2. LATIN AMERICAN ELDERS DANCE GROUP
Click here to listen (duration: 1' 56)

3. PAYMAN JABERI - IRANIAN POLITICAL PRISONER
Click here to listen (duration: 1' 30)

4. JOHN CLAYTON AND RICHARD CARTER
Click here to listen (duration: 2' 20)

5. EILEEN HOBBS - LIDO AND POND SWIMMER CAMDEN.
Click here to listen (duration: 3' 22")

6. DR. GEORGE MCGAVIN - EXPLORER AND ENTOMOLOGIST.
Click here to listen (duration: 6' 06")

7. PUPIL AT HEAVER'S FARM PRIMARY SCHOOL, CROYDON.
Click here to listen (duration: 1' 11")

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