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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Tuesday, May 8th — 6:30 p.m.
Interchange, Hampstead Town Hall, 213 Haverstock Hill,
London NW3 4QP (Belsize Park Tube)
A rehearsed reading of a new play by John Ashworth performed by
professional actors from Equity and the North West London Equity
branch. Directed by Catherine Arden.
England 1800 – a dangerous and uncertain time. The colonies of
the New World in America are fighting against the British crown
for independence and Napoleon is advancing across Europe with
England in his sights. Fear, mistrust and suspicion lurk in every
corner of the land.
The plot centrepieces are William’s relationship with his wife
Catherine; his desire to write an epic of England struggling against
inhumanity and war; imagination in conflict with repression;
Blake’s trial for sedition; and the determination and vision to live,
love, and work in a new way.
The play is in two acts with a 20 minute interval between.
Tickets £5 (Blake Society members free of charge).
6.30 pm Tuesday 17 April 2012
The City of Westminster Archives Centre,
10 St. Anne’s Street,
London SW1P 2DE – just off Parliament Square.
One of the most extraordinary evocations of Blake in many years, My Business Is to Create : Blake’s Infinite Writing is also a manual on creative writing, the jewel on which a writer’s life might turn.
Professor Eric Wilson is the author of many other books including Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, In Praise of Melancholy, and, The Mercy of Eternity: A Memoir of Depression and Grace, an account of how Blake’s idea of forgiveness helped Wilson in his struggle with clinical depression.
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