{"id":2917,"date":"2018-08-30T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T11:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2018-08-30T11:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T11:10:24","slug":"trench-brothers-performance-at-brighton-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/trench-brothers-performance-at-brighton-dome\/","title":{"rendered":"Trench Brothers &#8211; Performance at Brighton Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>TRENCH BROTHERS\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>7pm on 17th October at Brighton Dome<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>A new music theatre work commemorating ethnic minority soldiers in the First World War<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Music: \u00a0Julian Joseph and Richard Taylor<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Libretto:\u00a0 Tertia Sefton-Green<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0Tickets are available through the <a href=\"https:\/\/brightondome.org\/event\/18306\/trench_brothers\/\">BRIGHTON DOME<\/a>\u00a0and cost \u00a312.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/brightondome.org\/event\/18306\/trench_brothers\/\">BUY TICKETS HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new music theatre work commemorating the contributions of ethnic minority soldiers during the First World War through music, theatre and puppetry, bringing to life their hopes and fears, their longing for home, their camaraderie, courage and valour.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Clare Whistler and Freya Wynn-Jones to Neil Irish\u2019s designs, it features over 250 children from local primary schools in Brighton, Newhaven, Lewes and Seaford alongside acclaimed jazz vocalist of the year and MOBO nominated Cleveland Watkiss and\u00a0<em>\u2018superb\u2019<\/em>\u00a0(The Times) opera singer Damian Thantrey.<\/p>\n<p>Renowned jazz composer Julian Joseph and award-winning composer Richard Taylor are joined by composers Michael Betteridge, Jenny Gould, Matthew King, James Redwood and Omar Shahryar in a unique collaboration drawing together work developed with schools across London, Lancashire and the South East since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This powerful centenary event is made all the more poignant by its location in Brighton Dome, which served as an Indian Military Hospital during the war.<\/p>\n<p>The Trench Brothers Exhibition will be at Newhaven Fort from 4 August to 5 November offering a creative response to the untold stories of ethnic minority soldiers in the First World War. For more information on the interactive exhibition, please see our<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/trenchbrothers\/exhibition\/\">EXHIBITION PAGE.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trench Brothers was created with support from Heritage Lottery Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRENCH BROTHERS\u00a0 7pm on 17th October at Brighton Dome \u00a0A new music theatre work commemorating ethnic minority soldiers in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmdt.org.uk\/hmdtmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}