REHEARSED READING: “Shostakovich” written by Jack Healy |directed by Cormac O'Connor

Granary Studio | Wednesday 19th December | 6pm | Free

Jack Healy reads from work in preparation for a one man show based on the life of the famous Russian composer. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born into Russia under the last Tsar and grew up into the emerging Soviet state. When his opera; "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" drew the wrath of Stalin, he came close to annihilation and was saved only by dint of his international reputation. He survived to live a life where he had to constantly mediate between the needs of his own personal aesthetic and the controlling impositions of the Communist State where the cultural needs of "the people" were paramount. He still managed to be hugely prolific and died in the seventies leaving an immense and varied body of work behind him.

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