Hugh Lupton

REPERTOIRE:
The following listings represent major pieces within Hugh's current performance repertoire. Hugh Lupton also has a wide ranging repertoire for both children and adults, for performances and work in educational and community contexts and for site specific work. Hugh's repertoire is ever expanding; he is available for commissions and can develop material for specific projects as required.

Solo performances:
Beowulf, solo or with Rick Wilson
The Mardling Acre, East Anglian Tales
The Jack & Queen of Hearts, stories of love & lust
Animal Tales, for family audiences
Ladder to the Moon, cross-cultural mixture of tales, solo or in collaboration

Collaborations:
Beowulf, solo or with Rick Wilson
Praise Songs, with Chris Wood
The Iliad, with Daniel Morden
The Odyssey, with Daniel Morden
Metamorphoses, with Daniel Morden
The Sleeping King, with Daniel Morden & Nick Hennessey
The Three Snake Leaves, an exploration of the dark heart of the Grimms stories, with The Company of Storytellers, Ben Haggarty & Pomme Clayton
The Spell on the Tongue and the Grammary of Song, with Robin Williamson
Ladder to the Moon, cross-cultural mixture of tales, solo or in collaboration

PUBLICATIONS:
6 anthologies for Barefoot Books including the award winning ‘Tales of Wisdom and Wonder’ described as ‘Lucid and Haunting ... a book to treasure’ (The Independent).

RECENT MEDIA:
Something Understood, BBC Radio 4, 2005
Late Junction, BBC Radio 3 commission ‘Christmas Champions,’ 2005

AWARDS:
BBC Folk Awards ‘Song of the Year’ 2005, for the song ‘One in a Million’, co-written with Chris Wood.
The Classical Association Prize 2005, for The Iliad, with Hugh Lupton, awarded for ‘the most significant contribution to the public understanding of the classics’.

‘...as you journey deeper into the world of imagination… the tears start slowly to well up inside you and spill...’
The Times (for Praise Songs, with Chris Wood)

‘...I went to the Barbican the other day to listen to two of Britain’s finest storytellers – Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden – recounting the Iliad, the tale of that great quarrel from which all western literature springs. The seats were uncomfortable… but the hours flew by. These two men had to do no more than tap into the ancient power of the spoken word to hold an entire audience in their thrall. A veil of typescript fell from my eyes.
I saw Helen in all her intoxicating beauty standing amid the bloody chunks of a slaughtered stallion. I saw Achilles aglitter in gold armour before his black ranks of Myrmidons. I saw banquets and voyages, armies and oceans, battling heroes and ravening gods – all conjured out of thin air by a voice. Film is often thought to be a threat to literature. But the images that billowed and faded in that darkened auditorium were quite different from those that unspool across a screen. I could put my hands in front of my face and the pictures would not vanish. They were inside me. They belonged to me. They were part of the history of the whole of human life.’
The Times (for the Iliad)

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