The magic of the Broads

Booming Voices, June 2, The George Alcock Community Centre, 7.30pm

Eastern Angles return to the road with a Norfolk Broads play Booming Voices – which reaches Peterborough at the beginning of June. In their 40 th anniversary year, Eastern Angles are back doing what they do best this spring – touring across the East of England with a new play telling a regional story.

This year’s show, Booming Voices, aims to capture the magic of the Broads and explore its possible future.

The tour runs from April 27 to June 12 – the Peterborough performance is at The George Alcock Community Centre on June 2 – and there is also the chance to watch from home.

The play uses the experience and voices of people living on the Broads to tell a new, unheard story of this iconic landscape. From a range of interviews held in the height of the pandemic, Ivan Cutting’s new play fuses real voices, science and nature to explore the past and question the future.

Speaking about the project, writer and director Ivan said: “This is a follow up to our production of The Tide Jetty which was so popular three years ago in 2019 and once again is part of the Water Mills and Marshes project funded by Heritage Fund and the Broads Authority. This time we are looking at the threat of climate change on one of the most beautiful and vulnerable spots in East Anglia.”

The real voices of residents stand centre stage alongside the story of the fictional Jen, a young student who is shielding in an isolated cottage on the edge of a watery haven and housesitting for a professor in the US who is investigating the impact of climate change.

Together they explore the iconic wildlife and nature of the Broads, showing us just how vulnerable this seemingly timeless landscape is.

With the songs of acclaimed folk musician Jimmy Aldridge, and insights from figures who helped discover the true nature of this wetland paradise (comparable to Ibiza, sang David Bowie), Booming Voices promises to be an evening that both prepares us for the future and gives us hope.

To find out more and book your tickets visit www.easternangles.co.uk or phone the Eastern Angles Box Office on 01473 211498.