Background If this makes you think this is a dour, dusty religious piece – forget it! Punks, Emo’s, Skaters, Goths, Ravers, Indie Chicks, Scene, Shoegazers, Rappers, Chavs, Townies and Wannabes are the order of the day. VISION premiered in March 2002 at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and was followed shortly by a CD launch at Drury Lane in London, sponsored by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group. VISION was performed in Lagos, Nigeria on May 2,3 and 4th. The Archbishop of Lagos attended the Command Performance. In preparing for the production, a group from SIYT have visited Lourdes to understand Bernadette’s story, how Lourdes has become a place of pilgrimage and what the place is like today. To read the blog of their visit, click here |
The Writers Dominic Hartley - Dom wrote the music for Vision while working as a TV news reporter. He is a freelance journalist, but music is his passion. He has entertained on the piano in bars across Europe and worked for two years as a pianist in the ski resort of Val d’ Isere. He is the keyboard player for the immensely popular London based 29 Fingers and is one of the band’s songwriters. He lives in London with his wife Clare and son Elliot, but will be moving to East Sussex in the late spring. Dominic has recently filmed and produced a 40 minute DVD “A Year With the Jesuits”. Jonathan Smith - Jonathan is no longer a top-flight lawyer, he quit having seen the light working on Vision. He now teaches A level English! Jonny was born and brought up in Leeds and now lives in Lancashire. In addition to Vision, he has written several privately published short stories and a - shortly to be published - book The Coffee Boy. Jonathan is a committed Francophile, - he speaks fluent French and lived for 5 years near Toulouse. He wrote much of Vision from his home there. He is married with two young children. |
| Related Web Sites, Articles and Media Links | |
| Vision the Musical | Is Seeing Believing ? - Catholic Omnibus Issue No.47 - Spring 2008 |
| Stonyhurst College Website | Set you sights on this French Story - Hunts Post - 2 April 2008 |
| Official Lourdes Website | Lourding it Up.... - Hunts Post - 2 July 2008 |
| She had a Vision - St. Ives Town Crier - 3 July 2008 | |
| Pilgimage for new show - St. Ives Weekly News - 10 July 2008 | |
| Community Life - Hunts Post - 16 July 2008 | |
| And a new Vision of the future - St. Ives Town Crier - 17 July 2008 | |
| Vision:Review - St. Ives Town Crier - 24 July 2008 | |
| Letters to the Editor - St. Ives Weekly News - 24 July 2008 | |
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Vision26th Sept 2008Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe |
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One more chance to see SIYT's electric production of Vision - the dramatic and tragic story of Bernadette played out through 17 rock/pop songs, taking the audience on an exciting journey that incorporates ballads and jazz, comedy and pathos. "Everything about Vision is high quality" St Ives Town Crier Vision tells the story of Bernadette of Lourdes like you've never heard it before. On a quiet road in southern France, two teenage hitchhikers are attempting, unsuccessfully, to hitch a ride to the coast. Instead, they stumble on the town of Lourdes and are forced to spend a night there. They are stunned by the buzz of the place. They make enquiries at a local bar and are soon embroiled in the powerful story of Bernadette Soubirous, the fourteen-year old girl who is the source of the town’s success. To find about SIYT's concert performance in Liverpool on Thursday 25th September click here |
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