Festa Fatuorum VI – the people and gratitude The sixth in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools The whole event is a massive collaborative effort. This is an aspect of the show that I find really lovely, it’s such a collective work. I might have[…]
October 2019
Festa Fatuorum V – the drinking bit The fifth in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools At the end of the liturgical action, the whole community would go to eat together, a feast in the more common sense of the word. The versus ad prandium “O crucifer”[…]
Festa Fatuorum IV – a medieval Feast day The fourth in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools Having spent some time thinking about all sorts of other medieval sources I might tap into, ultimately I ended up sticking quite closely to the idea of an[…]
Festa Fatuorum III – medieval satiric disruption The third in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools More musical ideas also surfaced in relation to the idea of subversion of order and disruption. I wondered whether we might include anything from the Roman de Fauvel for[…]
Festa fatuorum II – first steps, important manuscripts The second in a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools I am a self-proclaimed manuscript geek. These objects connect us to all the many “anonymouses” whose names we will never know. They were cherished and expensive and rare[…]
Festa fatuorum I – introduction The first of a series of blog posts by Leah Stuttard, musical director of our 2019 project Feast of Fools It’s been a fabulously enriching and satisfyingly long journey, but in less than a month I will be ‘directing’ (at least partially) the massive final night party of Brighton Early[…]