Audio download link: Thoughts on Mourning
For this walk, enter Abney Park Cemetery from the wrought-iron gates entrance on Stoke Newington Church Street.
This audio walk is a meditation on modern versus Victorian mourning practices. Interweaving quotes from then and now, with stories, the walk is set to the music of The Black Heart Procession, with exit music ‘Dance While the Sky Crashes Down’, by Jason Webley.
When completed, please take the time to fill out my short survey
For this walk, enter Abney Park Cemetery from the Neo-Egyptian gates entrance on Stoke Newington High Street.
This audio walk is the performed life story of Frank and Susannah Bostock, a famous travelling circus and menagerie couple, buried in Abney Park Cemetery. Frank was a famous lion tamer, and the Bostocks were part of the founding members of Dreamland Amusement Park, Coney Island, New York.
This walk is a love story, but not a simple one.
When completed, please take the time to fill out my short survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CGRML3B
I would like to thank my cast for the generous donation of their time and performances!
Cast:
Frank Bostock: Professor Richard Dennis
Susannah Bostock: Sam Edwards
Thomas Dyson, attorney: Gavin Kelly
Times journalist: Ronan Shields
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