All images are copyright Mark Thompson 2018 except show artwork copyright Jonathan Nowell 2018
Images
Performances
Several shows took place in 2018
- St Peter & St Paul’s Church Reepham
- St Peter in Eastgate Church, Lincoln
- All Saints Church, North Hykeham, Lincoln
- All Saints Church, Monks Road, Lincoln
- St Helena’s Church, South Scarle
- St Vincent’s Church Caythorpe
Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson provides technical support to a host of events across the county. He is also a member of the County Amateur, Operatic & Dramatic Society and Louth Playgoers and is an actor who has been in a variety of musicals.
Rebecca Brown
Rebecca Brown is a literacy specialist teacher and owner of Pathway Tuition. She specialises in developing confidence in young writers. Rebecca trained to sing classically in her youth and over the years, has sung in many choirs including Choir Invisible, various Military Wives’ choirs and The Lincoln Choral Society. Additionally, she has led several choirs for children and adults. Rebecca lives in Lincolnshire, is married to Ian and has two teenage children.
Jonathan Nowell
Jonathan Nowell is a composer and performer based in Lincoln. Influenced by jazz, folk and contemporary classical styles, he has written all kinds of music, including hymns and worship songs, large scale works for choir and orchestra, and pieces for jazz big band.
Performances of his music have taken place in schools, concerts halls, Cathedrals and the Royal Albert Hall , but for this project the sacred spaces of Lincolnshire ’s Churches seemed the perfect setting for this poignant local story of one family who gave everything.
About
A Meditation for Remembrance
In this centenary of the end of the First World War we remember the extraordinary sacrifice of one Lincolnshire family. We tell their poignant story through projection, soundscape, narration and chiefly song.
When Reverend PWT Beechey and his wife Amy moved with their growing family to the quiet Lincolnshire village of Friesthorpe, no-one could have foreseen what lay ahead. From the pastoral innocence of a country childhood, the family were plunged into the dark days of the Great War, as one by one the eight sons went away to serve their country. Only three returned. Amy’s Boys tells the heartrending story of a conflict which shattered the Beechey family, and changed the world.
Nothing would be the same again.