Three contemporary compositions titles:
The Earnest Truth
A Song on the End of the World
Chapter Ten
Directed by Jane Arnfield
Composer Katie Doherty
Conductor Magdalena Szymańska
Performers CLIL Choir
- First text title The Earnest Truth the lyrics are by patients at MONAR
- Second text is the poem ASong on the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz
- Third text called Chapter Ten is taken from The Tree of Life A Trilogy of Life in the Łódź Ghetto Book 3: The Cattle Cars Are Waiting, 1942-1944 by Chava Rosenfarb translated from the Yiddish by the author in collaboration with Goldie Morgentaler from Chapter Ten, Page 70 and the character is Simcha Bunin Berkovitch
Jane Arnfield is an Academic, Actress and Director. An Associate Professor of Drama at Northumbria University, UK and a Leverhulme Trust International Academic Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Łódź University. Her research translates biographical testimony into a theatre of witness. Researching the role of a second communicator or surrogate, within the politics of post war performance and memory www.thetinring.com