Cartography - Performance

By Chris Hoban and Martin Reeve

Suitable for ages 12+

In 'Cartography', Chris Hoban & Martin Reeve take us on a journey, through narrative and song, poetry and prose, from the earliest days of Britain. It's about our relationship to the land on which we live - featuring landowners and commoners, heaths and allotments, enclosure acts and rights (or lack of them), poacher & gamekeepers, wistful ballads and exuberant West Country miners.

Closely following our relationship with land as an ancient sacred foothold, its evolving division as common or private land, via the four great "land grabs", leading us on to modern times, the show looks gently at how we have shaped the land and how the land has shaped us.

With poetry by AE Housman, John Clare, TS Eliot, Charles Causley, RL Stevenson and others, mingled with an array of original songs, it offers a fascinating glimpse of where we have come from and where we might be heading.

"Beautiful, emotionally intense and fascinating story line." (Harry Barton, CEO Earthwatch Europe / former CEO of the Devon Wildlife Trust)