Thanks to Janneke for this update on acts confirmed for the 2014 Isle of Arts Festival. Ed
On Saturday 3rd May, writer, columnist and agony aunt Virginia Ironside brings her very entertaining show Growing Old Disgracefully to Ventnor. Still busy writing columns for the Independent as well as The Oldie Magazine, Virginia has also found time to write bestselling books: “No! I don’t want to join a book club!” and “No! I don’t need reading glasses!”
This show, suitable for all ages, has grown from speaking at literary events about her books and takes a humorous look at how your sixties can be the best (and the funniest) time of your life!
Tickets £ 12.00
Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits
On Sunday 4th May, festival goers can “brush up their Shakespeare”. No time to see all 37 plays or read all 154 sonnets? Then come and enjoy the highlights of the Bard’s work in Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits!
Actor Lance Pierson presents the most famous speeches and sonnets from Hamlet to Henry and Richard to Romeo, while Soprano Belinda Yates and pianist Heather Chamberlain perform music inspired by Shakespeare’s work, from Purcell to Porter and Walton’s Henry V to Bernstein’s West Side Story.
Tickets £11.00
First World War memoirs
Island artist and resident Jamie Vans will talk on Monday 5th May about the life of his great uncle Frank Vans Agnew, who travelled from America in 1914 to enlist, aged 46, in the Great War.
His exploits in wartime saw him winning a Military Cross in 1917, and his story has now been told in a book titled Veteran Volunteer – Memoir of the Trenches, Tanks and Captivity 1914 – 1919, due to be published in May this year by Pen & Sword Books.
Free Event
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