See Schubert at the Sundial Theatre (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

See Schubert at the Sundial Theatre

ACTOR/musician Michael Lunts gives another of his dramatic portraits of musicians at the Sundial Theatre at Cirencester College on Friday, October 3 at 8pm.

This time his subject is Schubert and in this one-man play with live music he gives his audience a unique opportunity to hear and see Schubert, man and musician, in a dramatic context.

Set in Vienna in 1828, A Wanderer Fantasy focuses on the last months of Schubert's tragically short life. The young composer has just arrived at his brother Ferdinand's house, to rest and take the air on the advice of his doctors. Faced with his own mortality, just as his artistic vision is rising to new heights, music pours forth in a last flowering of creativity before his 'unmentionable' illness takes its toll.

Using the metaphor of the wanderer, a figure that haunted Schubert's imagination, this is an evocative, moving drama that sheds new light on a much-misunderstood musical genius.

Tickets from the box office on 01285 64528 or via boxoffice@cirencester.ac.uk