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| Ovid's Garden - December 2015 - Winterbourne House and Garden |
Ovid's Garden forms
part of University of Birmingham postgraduate Miriam Bay's PhD
exploring the invocation of classical mythographer Ovid in Italian
Renaissance gardens. Designed by acclaimed landscape designer Kathryn
Aalto, in Miriam's own words, 'the purpose of this garden is to
recreate the plantings of the past, enabling me to explore how
Italian Renaissance gardens were designed to impart narrative,
retelling ancient mythology through botany and its inherent
symbolism.' Needless to say, we are thrilled to have been invited to
perform in this beautiful, multi-sensory living museum...
The team made a first
site visit to Ovid's Garden yesterday and, despite the heavy December
rain, were very excited by the different performance possibilities with which the garden
presents us – both in terms of space and of subject matter. Now to work on new episodes inspired by Ovid's narratives of the plants in this garden...
Date and time of
performance to be announced shortly...
