The Songs My Mother Used to Sing by Fran Isherwood

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The Songs My Mother Used to Sing by Fran Isherwood

Poems, a monologue or two, and the (very) odd song including some written using wordplayful constraints such as anagrams and antonyms, address the vagaries of the present while sporting the reading glasses of the past.  Warning: May contain puns.

A playfully humorous and occasionally moving spoken word show that incorporates poetry, a monologue or two, and the (very) odd song. Were you sung to as a child? Did you sing lullabies to your own children? Were traditional folk songs passed down through generations? Perhaps there’s a song you learned at school that has stuck with you despite (or perhaps because of) ear-piercing renditions on the recorder. This show will look at how these songs reflect the mood of the time, whether the lyrics are still relevant, and if they help to shape who we are. Although looking back through the medium of old songs, it allows us to look at now. Some of the poems were developed through a variety of sometimes daft methods and ‘Translations’ including Anagrams, Predictive Text, and Scrabble.