Poetry Performance
Live poetry generally falls into recognised categories. Page Poetry, which is read by a poet from a book to an audience, is contrasted with Stage Poetry, also known as Performance Poetry, which is learned by heart and performed. The latter has a relation to rap or hip hop – fast, rhyming, political, personal and urban. We also find poetry in some forms of storytelling, rhyming or un-rhyming, occasionally with musical accompaniment. All of these come into the rather broad category of Spoken Word.
What we are doing is something different again. We call it Poetry Performance. Whereas the above forms have no real crossover into theatre, our work is deeply rooted in verse drama and is directed and performed as a piece of theatre.
Peter talking about Poetry Performance
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Howard talking about directing Poetry Performance
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