To mark the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, PlayGC Theatre Company presents The Four Seasons Reimagined—a new interpretation of this iconic score for piano, accompanied by a selection of poetry and prose reflecting the essence of each season.
This performance brings together music and spoken word in an exploration of the natural cycle of the year. Vivaldi’s work is reinterpreted for piano by Sara Jasmin Page, interwoven with texts from writers including William Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, John Keats, and Dylan Thomas.
Thursday 6 March 2025
6.30–7.15pm
Performance starts at 6.30pm in Soane’s Garden Room
Pitzhanger will be open from 5 pm for access to exhibitions and other activities included in our Thursday Late Programme.
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ
£12
Your ticket grants you access to Pitzhanger Manor, all exhibitions, and free Thursday Lates activities on the night.
Composer/arranger/pianist/singer: Sara Jasmin Page—is a performer, singer-songwriter and pianist based in London & Yorkshire. She performs her own songs, writes music for theatre and has released three solo piano albums, ‘Encore’ (2024), ‘Away’ (2024) and ‘Moments’ (2022) and two acoustic piano-vocal EPs ‘Ariadne & the Monsters’ (2024) and ‘Stories’ (2023). A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Sara has performed and collaborated with theatre companies, communities and schools across the UK and internationally. Sara performs with PlayGC Theatre Company in Glory of the Garden which has garnered two awards for Best Poetry & Spoken Word performance at the Shaftesbury Fringe.
Reader: Lisa Day—recently Jill (Tonight will be a Memory Too) at The Playground Theatre, London, The Prime Minister (The Letter of Last Resort) on UK tour and at Jermyn Street Theatre, Chloe (Can’t Kill the Spirit) at The Playground Theatre; at The Questors Theatre, London: Helen (The Water’s Edge), Camilla (King Charles III), Aase (Peer Gynt), Elizabeth Law (When the Rain Stops Falling) and Mrs Higgins (Pygmalion). She has had roles in a couple of short films including as Isabella Kempe in Into the Mystic, due for release shortly.Founder PlayGC Theatre Company. Lisa performs with PlayGC Theatre Company in Glory of the Garden which has garnered two awards for Best Poetry & Spoken Word performance at the Shaftesbury Fringe.
Reader: Robert Gordon Clark—recently Geoff (Tonight will be a Memory Too) at The Playground Theatre, London, John (The Letter of Last Resort) on UK tour and at Jermyn Street Theatre, Charles Prime (Six Bad Poets) at The Playground Theatre; at the Questors Theatre, London: Mr Bennet (Pride and Prejudice), Parsons (George Orwell’s 1984), Dr Frobisher (The Browning Version), Wilfred Cedar (For Services Rendered), Joe Ryan (When the Rain Stops Falling), Colonel Pickering (Pygmalion), Albion (Paul Walters). Founder PlayGC Theatre Company. Robert performs with PlayGC Theatre Company in Glory of the Garden which has garnered two awards for Best Poetry & Spoken Word performance at the Shaftesbury Fringe.
A London and West Country-based theatre company which aims to produce modern classics, rediscovered gems and especially new writing, and through this to support young talent in the theatre industry. In 2023 the company staged Tonight Will Be a Memory Too, a new play by Andrew McGuinness at The Playground Theatre in London, garnering **** reviews, and before that toured David Greig’s The Letter of Last Resort in a Cold War themed double bill with Idle Discourse’s Tales from Star City. PlayGC’s new writing commitments for 2024-25 include: co-sponsoring, with the Alan Davidson Foundation, a new playwriting bursary at the Royal Court Theatre, London (first recipient Oli Forsyth’s play BRACE BRACE ran from October to November 2024); co-producing the first full professional production of Christopher Reid’s witty dramatic poem Six Bad Poets to be directed by Anthony Biggs; developing and staging a new work for piano and spoken word to mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons; and developing a new play, Can’t Kill the Spirit, which received a two-night staged reading at The Playground Theatre. The company is also touring its award-winning piece Glory of the Garden in 2025.
Join us on the first Thursday of every month as Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery stays open until 8pm, offering an after-hours experience filled with art, history, and culture. Explore contemporary exhibitions and the historic manor at your leisure, take part in engaging workshops and activities, or simply relax with refreshments from our on-site café/bar.
For Ealing Borough residents, Thursday Lates coincide with our Pay-What-You-Can ticketing model, making art and culture accessible to all. Simply log in at checkout to access flexible pricing. Advance booking is strongly recommended to secure your spot.
Please contact pitzhanger@pitzhanger.org.uk for more information.
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PITZHANGER MANOR & GALLERY
Ealing Green, London
W5 5EQ
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