Ancient Rain
PAUL KELLY & CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN WITH FEARGAL MURRAY
12—15 October
PAST EVENT
WORLD PREMIERE
★★★★★ Hypnotic.
Director CHRIS DRUMMOND
The words of great Irish poets are given new breath in this premiere collaboration between two inimitable artists.
The poetry of W. B. Yeats and his countrymen has an inherent musicality and this quality shines through in Paul Kelly, Camille O’Sullivan and Feargal Murray’s song-cycle Ancient Rain. Original compositions by these contemporary masters have been shaped around the words of more than a century of Irish poetry, and as Kelly and O’Sullivan incarnate a succession of diverse characters, a conduit across oceans and time is opened.
Kelly’s ingeniously understated yet evocative lyricism and O’Sullivan’s majestic vocal command unite here in the service of stories of love, loss and redemption.
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CAMILLE O'SULLIVAN
SUN 09 & SUN 16 OCT
Complementing the world premiere of Ancient Rain, Camille O'Sullivan will perform at Festival Lates venue, The Toff in Town. Experience this magnetic songstress in full flight.
Ancient Rain is produced by Far and Away Productions in association with Brink Productions, and is co-commissioned by Melbourne Festival and Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
IMAGE | Sean and Yvette/Martin Philbey
There’s an ache in his voice, and in the best of his songs—a story.
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With support from
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Far and Away Productions supported by
