Neil Bartlett has spent nearly six months travelling across the UK and beyond, meeting one hundred remarkable individuals who work for peace
On Remembrance Sunday at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, a non-stop 24-hour performance by a host of famous actors will read their words
It’s all part of 24 Hours of Peace by Bartlett, the former artistic director of the Lyric Hammersmith theatre, who has spent three years interviewing people involved in working towards peace
Back in 2017 he gave a groundbreaking reading of the whole of Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis live from Reading Gaol, a performance which has since been watched online around the world .
Now in Manchester a mix professional performers with members of the public drawn from across Greater Manchester, forty eight in all will be working together as a team for the full 24 hours of the performance and broadcast.
Barlett’s project saw him speaking to 16 former members of the Armed Forces; ex-IRA member Patrick Magee and Jo Berry, the daughter of one of his victims; an imam in Rochdale and a priest in Salford; an aid worker with experience in Somalia, South Sudan and Syria; and a community safety officer in Blackpool.
Among the famous names Adjoa Andoh, Liz Carr, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Toby Jones, Miranda Richardson and Don Warrington.
It all starts at 11.02 on the 10th November at the Royal Exchange
