Invoking 50 Articles - a response to Brexit a year on from the referendum.

In response to Britain voting to leave the European Union and the ambiguous times we live in, a new musical ritual ‘Invoking 50 Articles’, is going to have eight South West performances this June and July. Originally performed in April at the Torbay Doorstep Theatre Festival and Totnes’s ‘Party In The Town’, it had such positive responses that it is now being taken on the road.

‘Invoking 50 Articles’ is is a 45 minute work for 4-part choir with triangle, a vocoder, four umbrellas, portraits of all the prime ministers from Heath to May, a paper shredder and a solo violin. It was written and created by Hugh Nankivell and Steve Sowden.

The Choral Engineers are a creative community choir including members who voted leave and those who voted remain. 'Invoking 50 Articles' is distinctly non-tribal and non-partisan in its depiction of current events. Instead, it explores the limitations of binary politics which were made explicit by the yes/no EU referendum.

Audiences can expect to see projected imagery, to laugh out loud, to witness the re- creation of the referendum and to revel in the sound of lush, four-part vocal harmonies.

Review and pics from the Doorstep performances: https://doorsteparts.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/invoking-accepting/

Admission to all performances by donation

‘Invoking 50 Articles’ will be performed at the following places and times:

Wednesday June 28th - at 7pm - Ashburton - The Methodist Hall, West Street, TQ13 7DT Wednesday July 12th - at 7pm - Plymouth, The Unitarian Church, Notte Street, PL1 2HG

Wednesday July 19th - at 7pm - Exeter, South Street Baptist Church, 25 South Street, EX1 1EB

Saturday July 22nd - at 7pm - Bristol, The Greenbank, 57 Bellevue Rd, Easton BS5 6DP