This summer the Lichfield Festival will host Sarah Outen, an adventurer, rower, author and speaker. Sound like a lot? On top of all of that, in 2011 Sarah set off on her expedition ‘London2London: Via the world’, an expedition in…
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ticket to the Lichfield Festival’ – Jane Austen. Well, not quite, but that’s the version we have up here on the whiteboard in Festival HQ!
As you probably know this year at the Lichfield Festival we’re celebrating 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, so in honour of Jane we’ve compiled a list of our top 10 Jane Austen quotes!
Lots has been going on these past few weeks at Festival HQ! Our hares and tortoises have been handed over to be decorated, and one painted tortoise has even managed to crawl its way into our office. It’s now set overseeing everyone’s hard work! Although it’s still a couple of weeks until this tortoise will be released into the wilds of Lichfield for you all to see, we’ve received these pictures from the Bridge Centre of their ‘Bad Hare Day’ hare, doesn’t it look great?
This summer Ballet Cymru will be gracing the festival with their interpretation of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is one of Shakespeare’s most well-loved plays, featuring something for everyone, fairies, love-triangles and bad actors transformed into donkeys….
Do you ever watch a film and find yourself on the edge of your seat, not because what’s happening on the screen is all that scary, but because the music itself puts you on edge? A film’s soundtrack can make or break a film and tells a story of all it’s own. This summer at Lichfield we’ll be celebrating those iconic musical soundtracks, from ‘Forrest Gump’ to ‘Pink Panther’, as a part of our ‘BBC Concert Orchestra: Friday Night is Music Night’ event.
As well as this, we’ll be celebrating the works of Richard Rodgers, who composed, along with Oscar Hammerstein, the music for musicals such as ‘Carousel’, ‘South Pacific’, ‘The King and I’ and ‘The Sound of Music’. In honour of our event ‘The Sound of his Music: A Celebration of Richard Rodgers’, we’ve compiled a list of our favourite Rodgers songs! Read on to find out what we’ll be listening out for on the 8th July!
This July there will be a distinct chill in the air as The Secret Space in the cellars of Erasmus Darwin house are filled with the ghosts of nineteenth century. This summer ‘Morbid Curiosities: Don’t Go Into The Cellar’ will be showing how the female of the species can be even deadlier than the male with performances from three Victorian women who are masters of the ghost story.
The Yellow Wallpaper is one of the stories being adapted for these chilling performances. This story sees a young woman prescribed the ‘rest cure’ by her caring, but misguided husband, whilst suffering with what is assumed to be post-natal depression. However, restricted to the confines of her bed, and barred from writing the narrator is plagued by her own morbid thoughts. Soon she sees a woman in the wallpaper and this woman starts walking… It’s not long before this wallpaper woman is no longer happy to be confined to her swirling yellow prison…
Carrying boxes full of hares, unpacking some primordial-looking tortoises and googling correx signing. Three things you wouldn’t think would all happen in one day, but that’s what I’ve done today! Today is my second day working as a Marketing Intern…
