EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
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JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY
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Sarah has been the musical director for JMU's public musical theatre performance adapting project since 2005.
This involves directing 50 + university drama students with original music specifically written for each production.
Sarah runs vocal, song writing and musical sessions over a period of approximately two months in collaboration with the
in-house directors at JMU
.

POOL OF BLOOD
       
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Pool of Blood
- Liverpool Everyman
Directors, D Llewellyn, A Sherlock and R Merkin
Musical Director S Llewellyn
Lyrics G Winstanley, A Sherlock, JMU Drama students
JMU Drama
Liverpool Culture Company

A macabre musical extravaganza exploring murder and mystery stories from Liverpool, some fact, some fiction, some still unknown. One of the central stories to this production was of James Maybrick, a Liverpool cotton merchant whose diary was presented in 1992 claiming he was Jack the Ripper. His wife Florence Maybrick was convicted of his murder in1889, she poisoned him.

"Dark choral harmonies merge with gloriously malevolent, toe-tapping tunes in this blood-curdling rock opera cabaret."
Gaynor Wright, Creative Education Manager, Liverpool Culture Company


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JACK THE RIPPER
Music S Llewellyn, Words G Winstanley

POOL OF BLOOD SONG
Extract of opening number
COLD COLD
Extracts of songs from the Pool of Blood
 



extract of lyrics by
G.Winstanley.
all rights reserved
pool of blood
pool of blood
pool of blood
 

800 YEARS        

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800 YEARS
- ST GEORGES HALL - LIVERPOOL

Directors
- D Llewellyn, A Sherlock, J Hogarth
Musical Director S Llewellyn
Lyrics G Winstanley , A Sherlock, JMU drama students

In 2008 Liverpool hosted European Capital of Culture and in association with the culture company JMU
created a musical of 800 years of Liverpool History which was performed at the magnificant St Georges Hall Liverpool.

  lyrics
extract of lyrics by
G.Winstanley.
all rights reserved
TAVERN SONG

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SAILOR ' SONG

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800 years

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800 years

 

THE THOUGHTFUL DRESSER
 

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The Thoughful Dresser
- Zeligs Liverpool 1

Director David Llewellyn
Music Director S Llewellyn
Lyrics G Winstanley
A burlesque cabaret evening with three course meal was created by students from JMU adapting the
Thoughtful Dresser into song, vignettes, sketches, stand-up-comedy.
Photographs from this production will soon be up on the site.

dresser
extract of lyrics by
G.Winstanley.
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Dress Me

   
Make Mine an Androgyne




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L8R

L8R
Liverpool World Museum


Three simultaneous shows performed in mutli performance spaces at the Liverpool World Museum.
Adaptations of The Road by Cormac McCarthy, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and the internet society 2nd Life.
Directors A. Sherlock, R. Merkin, J.Freez

lyrics
extract of lyrics by
G.Winstanley.
all rights reserved

L8R Soundscape
JMU Drama

extract of installation sound piece for
Liverpool World Museum
using fragments & sound
L8R
Hypnotist Song



song written with students of JMU drama for a hypnotic movement piece in Brave New World adaptation


 

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L8R

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ASPIRE
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BRENT ARTS

Sarah is currently leading a 6 month project with Aspire working with children with disabilities ranging from autism, cerebral palsy and attention deficit disorder in Liverpool and Knowsley.
Sarah ran a two week summer school in 2009 with drama and dance practitioners as the start to the Scouse Skiffle Opera project. The large scale Scouse Community Opera
'The Wedding' will be showing at Hulme Hall in March 2011.

Sarah has written and directed music for three outdoor community productions in association with Brent Arts.
Midsummer Night's Dream, Peer Gynt and Gladstone

PEER GYNT Extract




PRINCESSES SONG
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TEACHING
belmont school Sarah has been teaching since 1997. She currently teaches piano at Belmont School .
Sarah has limited availabilty but does offer lessons in piano, theory, composition and saxophone on
a private one to one level in Finchley, London.
For lesson enquires please contact Christine. christine@tonal.org.uk
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