Artists in Our Midst: New Directions with Bronwyn Churcher
Bronwyn Churcher, who grew up on Bowen and recently moved back, has been doing theatre since she began at Tir-na-nOg when she was 11 years old. Lysistrata is her directorial debut. “It’s been really fun. I’ve had a lot of support,” she said. “And I think we’ve got the cream of the crop in terms of the Bowen actors involved in this.”
“Ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes wrote the anti-war gut-buster in about 411 B.C.E. At that point, Athenians were 21 years into Peloponnesian War, having suffered not only the Plague of Athens from 430 to 426 B.C.E. but devastating defeat during the Sicilian Expedition in 415 to 413 B.C.E. “Everybody was really fed up with war,” explained director Bronwyn Churcher. “There was a lot of unrest in the city at the time.”.
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Lagan Love
Where Lagan stream sings lullaby
There blows a lily fair
The twilight gleam is in her eye
The night is on her hair
And like a love-sick lennan-shee
She has my heart in thrall
Nor life I owe nor liberty
For love is lord of all
And often when the beetle's horn
Hath lulled the eve to sleep
I steal unto her shieling lorn
And thru the dorring peep.
There on thy cricket's singing stone,
She spares the bogwood fire,
And hums in sad sweet undertone
The songs of heart's desire
Her welcome, like her love for me,
Is from her heart within.
Her warm kiss is felicity
That knows no taint of sin.
And when I stir my soot to go,
'Tis leaving love and light
To feel the wind of longing blow
From out the dark of night
This is a song written to a traditional Irish air collected in 1903 in northern Donegal, the lyrics attributed to the poet Seosamh MacCathmhaoil.
"It’s been a good year for music for me and I have some exciting news to share as well as a Facebook page and YouTube channel featuring my new solo stuff. The news is that I got accepted into a PhD in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University in Newfoundland (and given full funding!) so I’ll be heading there in September to continue my music making and discovery! And also start a new band I’m sure. I have plans to record a solo album in the summer as well, and hopefully do a live show as soon as things open up again!"
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