This Saturday Metal celebrated Christmas Victorian style!
We had costumes, craft stalls, face painted, wholesome food, mulled wine, Santa and entertainment from the Formby Brass Band, the Kaleidoscope Gospel Choir and Mycroft Milverton (That’s me!).
I performed “T’was the Curious Incident of the Night Before Christmas”, a mashup poem I had written, heavily inspired by the poetry of Clement Clarke Moore, Edgar Allan Poe and William Wordsworth. With references to characters and literature of Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Bronte Sisters and Jules Verne. I also borrowed cliches from Victorian Christmas Carols too.
This was the first time I had written and performed my own show. It was only five minutes long but still nerve wracking none the less! So I was really quite nervous! Fortunately I had some great help from George, who helped me rehearse and fix the metre of the piece and invaluable physical acting tips from Mike ‘Livo’ Livesley (Sir Henry Rawlinson). Without their help it would not have been so good!
I also was very pleased to see that the performance worked on all levels with a range of young children and victorian literature fans all enjoying the performance alike! My favourite review was from Fionn age 7 “We saw daddy’s friend Warren who did a poem about Reindeer and a train and guess what, he’s invented a time-machine with a hatstand that’s got locks and chains on it, we went to see it in a big control room with all computers”
