The Beckoning of Hope is a compelling solo show about self discovery and redemption, featuring poetry and a cello. It gives the audience a potent insight into poetry's awesome power to bring rebirth and hope.

It will be performed by Marjorie McKee (Lover's of Central Park) with musician Sebastian Morgan-Lynch (Fat Freddy's Drop, Verona) at BATS in Wellington from February 12-16.The Beckoning of Hope is a compelling solo show about self discovery and redemption, featuring poetry and a cello. It gives the audience a potent insight into poetry's awesome power to bring rebirth and hope.

It will be performed by Marjorie McKee (Lover's of Central Park) with musician Sebastian Morgan-Lynch (Fat Freddy's Drop, Verona) at BATS in Wellington from February 12-16.After years of running away from an overwhelming grief, Becky returns home to New Zealand where she discovers a strong connection with an elderly Russian woman, Nadezhda, the widow of the great poet Osip Mandelshtam who died in the Stalinist purges.

Nadezhda wrote two books concerning their life together - reliving the grim savagery of Stalin's Russia, expressing within Osip's brilliant Russian poetry oppression, endurance and ultimately survival.

Through the voice that speaks in Nadezhda's writings, Osip's poetry, and eventually inside her own psyche Becky is able to step back into her world again. Whilst the play engages with this deeply personal exploration, it also raises many political questions about our past present and future.

The Beckoning of Hope is an impassioned, sometimes stark, empowering and finally hopeful play not to be missed.

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Jawbone Co-Operative Presents
The Beckoning of Hope

Directed by Andrew McKenzie
From an Original Concept by L'hibou Hornung
Written by Michael Burton and Adapted for Solo Actor by Marjorie McKee

When: February 12 - 16, 6.15pm
Where: BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce
Bookings: 802 4175 or book@bats.co.nz
Cost: $16/13/10

04/02/08