RSS

Category Archives: Perthi Kov

Until the Day Break – Tech Run

I am so proud! As I walked into St Euny Church today for the tech run of our show, ‘Until the Day Break’, I couldn’t quite believe the efforts everyone had gone to to source their own costumes and to become the ‘residents’. The Church was full of characters from the graveyard, from all eras and just looking the part. It quite took my breath away and I thank them all from the bottom of my heart! And – it rained all afternoon and still they sang and acted and guided and directed and brought the idea to life – what a crew! Thank you so very much, all of you. I am over-filled with happiness and gratitude. Please click on any photo to get a glimpse of how amazing our production is going to be and if you live locally, book your tickets for your story walk soon – we are selling out!

Lesley with Mandy who is playing Mary Angove Gill whose story I researched and wrote

Listening to our Dircetor

Still listening

Singing warm up

The Dust Girls

Marilyn with David

My dear friend Marilyn and me

Granny Catherine

Singing warm up

Hilary in role

Characters

Getting ready

Some of the child actors

Waiting to sing March of the Women

Walking through the graveyard

Becca is Arminel

5 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 13, 2017 in Beauty, community, Cornwall, friendship, Happiness, Perthi Kov, Photography, postaday2017

Tregellas Tapestry, A Gate and A New Hat

09 May

I was in the Cornish Studies Library again today and thought that you might like to see another of the Tregellas tapestries, this one of some Cornish Festivals including Padstow’s Obby Oss which I wrote about recently. Others of the remarkable tapestries can be seen here and here.

Traditional Festivals

We have been delivering flyers to advertise the show, Until the Day Break, today. A face gate made me smile so here it is for you.

Lots of teeth and gold hair!

I went to Daisy Rain Vintage to find accessories for my costume for the show. No luck, sadly but I did find this delightful hat in a shop further down the hill.

Spring hat

Programme, Posters and A Poem

08 May

Things are coming together for Perthi Kov’s production of ‘Until the Day Break’. Today the programmes were delivered and we collected the posters. Just showing you a little of one for now but when the show is done, I will show you all of them. They have been designed for us by the very talented Anna Oliver of Fresca Marketing using a painting by Sue Hill (programme) and images from St Euny Graveyard.

A little poem today for you:

An Epilogue by John Masefield.

I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too.

2 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 8, 2017 in art, Beauty, painting, Perthi Kov, Photography, postaday2017, theatre

Tags: An Epilogue by John Masefield., fresca marketing, John Masefield, Sue Hill, trust

Rehearsals in St Euny Churchyard

07 May

It is less than two weeks to the start of our production of ‘Until the Day Break’! Today was a choir rehearsal with The Ingleheart Singers and The Red River Singers for the whole route, planning who should sing where – very exciting! There were small character rehearsals going on too so here is a gallery to give you a flavour of our beautiful afternoon. Click on any photo for more detail.

Trying out a small group on ‘Black and Gold’

One of our actors who will play Dmitri Nabokov

The May Carol being sung between the old and the new Churchyards

Carn Brea and Bluebells

On the route that the audience will take

Being directed in their scene

Spring Posy, Clematis and Beribboning

27 Apr

I collected a tiny posy of Spring flowers today for my lovely little pottery container sent to me by our lovely friend, P.

The Clematis in the front garden is beautiful.

We have a friend staying for a few days and we all walked down to the Churchyard to take photos of four special gravestones which are to be part of the performance 18th-21st May. They are each to be marked by ribbons and the four young women being remembered will be wearing the same colour of ribbon on their costume.

To Mary Wilshaw

To know her was to love….

Eliza Quick

Jane Berryman

In Print, Violets and Sunset

20 Apr

This morning I found the May issue of Cornwall Today in the shop and our project has a wonderful six page write up from Kirstie Newton with fabulous photos taken by Sally Adams.

The article about our project

I spent another couple of happy hours in the Cornish Studies library today finding more images for our exhibition and our programme – all very exciting and this evening we went up to St Agnes Beacon for a quiet walk together, no-one else around and found some peace.

Violets on the cliff top

We watched the sun set.

Sunset from St Agnes Beacon

2 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 20, 2017 in art, Beauty, Cornwall, environment, Happiness, nature, Peace, Perthi Kov, Photography, postaday2017, theatre

Tags: Cornwall Today, Kirstie Newton, Sally Adams, St Agnes Beacon

A Day’s Work, Handprint and Rowers

19 Apr

The Perthi Kov team have all been hard at it today, costume schedules, character discussions, poster making and programme designing – just brilliant and I want to record my thanks to the team making this happen. They know who they are. The flyers are ready for printing too.

We had supper at The Blue Bar this evening and then had a walk on the beach at Porthtowan. We spotted a handprint that suggested someone was doing cartwheels earlier in the evening. I used to love cartwheeling across the beach!

We watched the rowers practising.

2 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 19, 2017 in Beauty, community, Cornwall, environment, nature, Perthi Kov, Photography, postaday2017, theatre

Tags: The Blue Bar, Until the Day Break

St Euny Graveyard and ‘Until the Day Break’

02 Apr

What a brilliant day! Warm sun shone on us as we began to rehearse ‘Until the Day Break’ in St Euny Churchyard with both choirs, The Ingleheart Singers and The Red River Singers, with the professional actors and all the volunteers. It was truly wonderful seeing our ideas all come together. In the gallery you will see the warm up in the Church, some of the rehearsals at the gravestones, our tea break and more rehearsals and, if you click on the video, even hear a bit of one of the songs we have just learned.

Warm up

Singing and dancing a Russian song

Discussion about a scene just played

Singing between the two graveyards

Tea break

Two actors who will play Mary Angove Gill awaiting their turn with the director

Rehearsing at the grave of Suffragette sisters

1 Comment

Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 2, 2017 in Beauty, Cornwall, Happiness, Perthi Kov, Photography, postaday2017, singing, theatre

Tags: St Euny the Miners' Church, Until the Day Break

St Euny, Yellow and A Poem

13 Mar

This morning we walked the Churchyard again, this time with the photographer for Cornwall Today, a local magazine where our project is to be featured in the May edition. Every journey into the Churchyard is a revelation – more stones discovered and different Spring flowers in bloom. Today it is Celandines, Primroses and Daffodils.

DSCN9546 DSCN9541 DSCN9540 DSCN9533 DSCN9539

This beautiful poem by Linda Gregg is most appropriate for today.

In Praise of Spring – Linda Gregg

The day is taken by each thing and grows complete.

I go out and come in and go out again,

confused by a beauty that knows nothing of delay,

rushing like fire. All things move faster

than time and make a stillness thereby. My mind

leans back and smiles, having nothing to say.

Even at night I go out with a light and look

at the growing. I kneel and look at one thing

at a time. A white spider on a peony bud.

I have nothing to give, and make a poor servant,

but I can praise the spring. Praise this wildness

that does not heed the hour. The doe that does not

stop at dark but continues to grow all night long.

The beauty in every degree of flourishing. Violets

lift to the rain and the brook gets louder than ever.

The old German farmer is asleep and the flowers go on

opening. There are stars. Mint grows high. Leaves

bend in the sunlight as the rain continues to fall.

2 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 13, 2017 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, flowers, nature, Perthi Kov, Photography, postaday2017

Tags: Cornwall Today, irritation with wordpress, St Euny Churchyard

Cruet Set, A Walk and Bark

07 Mar

I loved this cruet set which was on the table in The Melting Pot cafe in Krowji where we had a delicious lunch of Courgette and Leek soup.

Another walk in St Euny graveyard this afternoon – this time to talk logistics with Rebecca Mordan of Scary Little Girls who do literary theatrical walks. Our production, Until the Day Break, becomes more real every time we take someone else on the walk with us.

A tree in the graveyard caught my eye – the beautiful colours of the bark and the pictures therein. It was like cloud watching and finding shapes in them. I just discovered that there is a name for doing that – Pareidolia – I love new words! What do you see here? My first mind picture changed as I took the photo.