The Secret Poetess of Terezin

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Theatre (music, spoken word)

  • Accessibility:
    Wheelchair Accessible Toilets
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  • Babes in arms policy: Babies do not require a ticket
  • Policy applies to: Children under 18 months

Description

'How can people on the brink of death experience happiness, write love poems…?' In 2017, Lenka discovered two notebooks of poems written by her grandmother, then a prisoner in a WWII concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Canadian musician transformed her grandmother’s words into Thieves of Dreams, an ’incredibly touching, moving way to honour history’ (Q on CBC.ca), Canada's 2023 Juno Award-winning album and an internationally touring multimedia stage show. The immersive, intimate performance wins over audiences with its intensely personal yet universal narrative of love evolving and dissolving under the pressure of monumental historical events.

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  • Wheelchair Accessible Toilets
  • Accessible entry: Via a door from street level and a lift.

    • Wheelchair access type: Temporary Ramp, Lift (Building Lift)

  • Stairs: Information not supplied

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Sylvie 23 days ago

Haunting and beautiful performance. Inspiring poems written in a Nazi concentration camp have found their way to Lenka clearly by divine intervention - set to music and sung with her gorgeous angelic voice.
Couldn't get enough.
Highly recommended!

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Alexander Guy 26 days ago

Loved this show...Lenka tells the story through poetry and songs about her Grandmother and Mother and their experiences having survived the Terezin Concentration Camp...The songs played live throughout the show were beautiful!

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TheatreReviewsKurahashi 20 days ago

Lichtenberg’s show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024 was another renewed encounter with the spirits of Terezín; I will cherish this reencounter.

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