This virtual exhibition was created to accompany a display in the Library's galleries between July and October 2000.

Sunday 6 August | Sunday 13 August | Sunday 20 August | Tuesday 29 August
Wednesday 2 August, 18.15-19.15
Stewart Conn reads
A Personal Selection of Scottish Poetry
His own, and his favourites by others from past and present. Included in his selection are the medieval William Dunbar, the treasure chest of the Ballads, the love songs of Robert Burns, as well as poems by W.S. Graham, Iain Crichton Smith, Edwin Morgan (recently awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry) and Douglas Dunn.
Stewart Conn is a poet and playwright and lives in Edinburgh. His volumes of poetry include The Luncheon
of the Boating Party and, most recently, Stolen Light: Selected Poems – both published by Bloodaxe Books.
£5.00; £3.50 concessions Ticket information

Stewart Conn	Robert Burns

Wednesday 2 August | Sunday 13 August | Sunday 20 August | Tuesday 29 August
Sunday 6 August, 13.00-14.00
In the Piazza (weather permitting)
Running Bear present the world première of
Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts
by Roald Dahl
Directed by Hannah Jack; puppet designs
by Sarah Green and Heather Morrell
Grisly, beastly, wacky and rude retellings of favourite pantomime stories – with some curious animals thrown in for good measure. Running Bear is one of the country’s best-known performance companies, specialising in devising shows for children and adults. Their acclaimed shows for the King’s Head Theatre and elsewhere include The Four SSSSs and Toilet Rolls.
Free (no tickets will be issued)

Followed by
14.45-16.30 In the Conference Centre

Matilda (FILM)
starring Danny de Vito and Mara Wilson (directed by Danny de Vito; 1996; PG; 98 mins)
The film of the book by Roald Dahl
£2.50 all tickets Ticket information

Hannah Jack	Danny de Vito & Mara Wilson in Matilda	Revolting Rhymes and Dirty Beasts

Wednesday 2 August | Sunday 6 August | Sunday 20 August | Tuesday 29 August
Sunday 13 August, 15.00-16.30
(includes interval)
Joseph Millson & Miles Richardson present the world première of
The War Show
Devised by Tim Heath and Miles Richardson
On 12 August, 1914, the great shooting match started... This specially devised anthology celebrates the war-inspired literature of the last Millennium, ending with ‘the war to end all wars’ which destroyed the lives of some of our best-loved War Poets.
Joseph Millson is best known as the star of Peak Practice. He is also a very experienced theatre actor, having worked extensively in repertory theatre all over the country and in the West End – most recently at the Comedy Theatre in The Real Inspector Hound and Black Comedy.
Miles Richardson’s West End credits include Another Country, The Invisible Man and An Evening With Gary Lineker. His film and TV credits include: Maurice, The Remains of the Day, Porterhouse Blue, Highlander and, most recently, Sabotage and Hit List. He also starred in Not Yet The Dodo, the Noël Coward poetry revue presented at the British Library last December.
Tim Heath devised and directed the world première productions of Noël Coward’s Not Yet The Dodo, seen here last December, and of Jane Austen’s The History of England, which features earlier in this season. His solo shows include the world première of John Betjeman’s Summoned by Bells and his plays include Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure at Sir Arthur Sullivan’s (published by Ian Henry Ltd).
£7.50; £6.00 concessions Ticket information

Miles Richardson	Joseph Millson

Wednesday 2 August | Sunday 6 August | Sunday 13 August | Tuesday 29 August
Sunday 20 August, 13.00-14.00
The Bard’s most popular play is the star of
Shakespeare on-the-Piazza
In the Piazza (weather permitting)
Scenes from Romeo & Juliet
Verona is recreated outdoors in the British Library Piazza: students from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art perform scenes and fights from Shakespeare’s best-loved play.
Free (no tickets will be issued)

14.15 In the Conference Centre Ticket information

Q&A Session
Sword-fights, love scenes, madness...student actors explain what they do and what it’s like training for a tough profession.

Followed by
14.45-16.45 In the Conference Centre
William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet (FILM)
starring Leonardo di Caprio and Claire Danes (directed by Baz Luhrman; 1996; PG; 120 mins)
£2.50 all tickets Ticket information

Romeo and Juliet

Wednesday 2 August |Sunday 6 August | Sunday 13 August | Sunday 20 August
Tuesday 29 August, 19.00-20.00
Jah Wobble and band honours
William Blake
Born in 1757 the son of an Irish hosier, Blake was an astonishingly talented man
who became a poet, painter, engraver and mystic, championing the freedom of the imagination and expressing a hatred of materialism and rationalism.
Jah Wobble is perhaps still best known as a former member of Public Image Ltd.
He has also worked with Primal Scream, Björk and Brian Eno, and played on records by Sinead O’Connor, Andy Weatherall, Peter Gabriel, The Shamen, Daniel Ash, Ginger Baker and Suggs. He has remixed, among others, Love City Groove, Dodgy, Definition of Sound and Simply Red.
His album Inspiration of William Blake was released in 1999 by All Saints.
£7.50; £6.00 concessions Ticket information

Jah Wobble	Newton After Blake

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