Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress
20th Jun 2019 to 20th Jun 2019
Music
Dispatches on the Red Dress is an intimate and adventurous exploration of memory, identity, joy, sorrow, trauma-recovery, bird-song, war and waltzes.
Unravelling the urgent message hidden in the folds of a story from her own grandmother’s youth in 1940's Germany, award-winning musician Rowan Rheingans sings to the past, the present and the future in this unique and deeply personal one-woman show.
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Rowan Rheingans: Dispatches on the Red Dress
Dispatches on the Red Dress is an intimate and adventurous exploration of memory, identity, joy, sorrow, trauma-recovery, bird-song, war and waltzes. Unravelling the urgent message hidden in the folds...
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