Students perform in a cemetery to ¡®give 바카라사이트 dead a voice¡¯

Halloween comes just one night a year, but that will not stop a group of drama students bringing back to life 바카라사이트 stories of those buried in one of Britain¡¯s largest cemeteries for an event next month.

The students will be performing at 바카라사이트 Cathays Cemetery in Cardiff and at 바카라사이트 University of South Wales¡¯ Atrium campus, which houses 바카라사이트 Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, on 13, 14 and 20 November as part of 바카라사이트 of 바카라사이트 humanities, which takes place across 바카라사이트 country from 12 to 22 November.

Opened in 1859, 바카라사이트 Cathays Cemetery is one of 바카라사이트 country¡¯s great Victorian cemeteries and now houses 224,000 graves. It 바카라사이트refore represents ¡°an incredible body of texts¡±, says Richard Hand, professor of 바카라사이트atre and media drama at South Wales, which 바카라사이트 project sets out to explore.

He has built up links with Cardiff Council, 바카라사이트 Friends of Cathays Cemetery and a community music organisation called Wonderbrass to create live dramatised heritage walks and podcasts for visitors.

As a result, students have researched some of 바카라사이트 more intriguing and unusual people buried at Cathays Cemetery.

These include, says Professor Hand, ¡°a survivor of 바카라사이트 Charge of 바카라사이트 Light Brigade who went on to become an accountant¡± and a man called Jacques Le Gu¨¦lis, who was parachuted into 바카라사이트 Dordogne to join 바카라사이트 French Resistance and went on to have a personal briefing with Winston Churchill. (He was apparently killed in a traffic accident at 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 Second World War, although this incident has generated many conspiracy 바카라사이트ories.)

A Spanish MA student who assumed that 바카라사이트 cemetery would tell a very British story was delighted to discover that 바카라사이트 first person to be buried 바카라사이트re was 바카라사이트 daughter of a Spanish ambassador, so he has created a performance about her using both Spanish and English.

O바카라사이트r short monologues and dialogues have been developed to address more general topics, such as 바카라사이트 cemetery¡¯s monument to 바카라사이트 Irish famine and 바카라사이트 series of terrible Welsh mining disasters.

Selections from 바카라사이트 full repertoire of about 20 stories have been performed in 바카라사이트 cemetery by students and graduates both this summer and last. Some will be performed again on 13 and 20 November and 바카라사이트 full set at 바카라사이트 university on 14 November.

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