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Sedbergh Festival of Books and Drama 2008

The Sedbergh Festival of Books and Drama will take place between 6th and 21st of September 2008. Plans are still to be finalised. The following list is a provisional summary of the planned events, further details should be available around the end of July.
Saturday, 6 September
  • J Siddique - full day Poetry School seminar for adults at Farfield Mill
  • Ian McPherson - The Wisdom of No-Mind - where Zen, T'ai Chi and Haiku Meet
  • Barrie Rutter the Director of Northern Broadsides - in his one man show ‘A One Night Stand with Barrie Rutter’
Sunday, 7 September
J Siddique - Poetry reading, book signing and first performance of “A Poem for Sedbergh”;
Monday, 8 September
Robert Neild - Shakespeare Codes, the mystery of who wrote the plays is solved!
Tuesday, 9 September
Isobel Stirk member of the Bronte Society - A talk about the ill-fated literary family, followed by a cinema presentation of a Bronte based film
Wednesday, 10 September
Carys Davis - prize winning local author speaks about the discipline of writing short stories
Thursday, 11 September
Haytime - a new film by poet Maggie Norton and film maker Kate Whiteside, their evocation of haytime in the Dales
Friday, 12 September
Ha Ha Hamlet? - Straight from the Edinburgh Fringe, an anarchic comedy version of Hamlet - and you thought it was a tragedy!
Saturday, 13 September
Penny Plain street theatre and Rough Magic Puppet Theatre
Sunday, 14 September
Making Waves - New writing and music on watery themes from Dumfries - includes meal at Farfield Mill
Monday, 15 September
Shakespeare on Toast by Ben Crystal - an actor from London’s new Globe Theatre gives us his unique take on the bard
Tuesday, 16 September
  • David Boulton - In Fox’s Footsteps, David celebrates the reissue of his definitive work with a talk on local Quaker history
  • Tom Palmer conducts the Football Reading Game
  • Stage Combat with Richard Brightman - Workshops will run all day for youngsters and adults, learn all the tricks of the stage and screen heroes
Thursday, 18 September
  • Tom Palmer conducts the Football Reading Game
  • John Rice - travel talk. “The Atlantic Arc”; & “With Scott in the Antarctic”;
Friday, 19 & Saturday 20 September
Drama production by a local Sedbergh company
Sunday, 21 September
Michael Pennington - acclaimed member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Sweet William his one man acted biography of the bard
For further details of any aspect of the festival contact the Festival Organiser, Carole Nelson, (email , phone 015396 20034) or the Sedbergh Tourist Information Centre (email , phone 015396 20125)

Previous Festivals

Click on the links below to see details of earlier festivals.
Sedbergh, England's Book Town - a Future in Words.