Hearing Voices, The Print Room

Heard in concert at QEH Southbank and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, Hearing Voices will grace the cosier confines of the Print Room at the Coronet this July.

Hearing Voices is a mixed media song cycle that combines solo voice, strings and the recorded voices of real-life testimonies from women sufferers of mental illness across generations.

Woven out of five moving stories of trauma, protest and triumph, the piece takes a long, hard look at perceptions of mental illness that are still evolving today. It examines the shifts and setbacks that labels such as hysteria, madness, psychological disturbance and dementia have undergone since their genesis as clinical concepts.

Composer Jocelyn Pook’s reputation is assured in a list of credits that includes writing for stage, screen, theatre and concert hall. Alongside two British Composer Awards (BASCA), she has been the recipient of a Golden Globe and an Olivier Award. Accompanying her piece will be visual installations by videographer Dragan Aleksic.

With one of only four showings already sold out, Hearing Voices promises to be a packed event.