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POETRY
Glyn’s latest poetry collection Hide Now was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes
Anything But the Case
Do me my elegy now, or I’ll scrawl the thing
I scrawl as you’re going or screw in a ball when you’re gone,
Or you and I write unaware in each other’s tongue
That you or I ever set foot… Or do what our son
And/or little daughter got done: got our brilliant names
Pricily grooved in marble by one skilled
In times of loss; dream iridescent dreams
It’s that first Saturday. Let this hour be filled
With anything but the case, so that Time the clerk
Goes panting in horror from gremlin to error to glitch
And his screen is stripes and he knows he saved his work
In one of a billion files but fuck knows which,
And he lets us alone or, at worst, as we tiptoe by,
Feels we’re familiar, can’t for the world say why.
FILM
Glyn’s play Mimi and the Stalker has been awarded a major grant from the UK Film Council for development as a screenplay, under the working title Witchgrass
Glyn’s book-length poem Time’s Fool is in development as a screenplay (director Jon Croker), having been developed throughout 2009 at the Ekran Film School in Warsaw, in association with the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
OPERA
World premiere of a new opera The Lion’s Face, composed by Elena Langer, libretto by Glyn, director John Fulljames, Brighton Festival, May 2010, followed by UK tour (full schedule below). Produced by the Opera Group in association with the Institute of Psychiatry and the Wellcome Foundation, The Lion’s Face is the first major opera to examine the world of Alzheimer’s Disease
Performance schedule (tbc)
Brighton Festival 20th and 21st May
Oxford Playhouse 23rd May
Newcastle, Northern Stage 25th and 26th May
Watford Palace Theatre 28th and 29th May
Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio 20th, 21st, 28th and 29th July
A ‘fragmentation’ of Milton’s Paradise Lost (working title The World Was All Before Them) composer Luke Bedford, produced by The Opera Group, directed by John Fulljames with the support of BCMG (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group), the Jerwood Foundation and the Aldeburgh Festival, for production in 201o
THEATRE
Blind Eye Crying (formerly titled The Ruins), a new version of the legend of the Trojan women, starring Geraldine James, produced by Lifeblood Theatre Company and The Onassis Programme, director Alex Clifton, premieres at the Arcola Theatre in London (29th September-23rd October 2010) prior to a UK tour
The Gambler, an adaptation of Glyn’s own radio version of the Dostoevsky story (broadcast on BBC Radio 3, June 2009) starring Patricia Routledge. Produced by Sue Scott Davison Productions, directed by Guy Retallack
A new adaptation of the morality play Everyman is in development, director Alex Clifton
Glyn has been commissioned to write a new adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Dona Rosita the Spinster for production in early 2011, director Russell Bolam
APPEARANCES Poetry reading, 6.45, 14 January 2010, Aubin and Wills, 188 Westbourne Grove, London, with Kate Kilalea
