Filmed by Neal Megaw
Edited by Grace Fox
Colour Grading – Rob Moth

Written by Richard Trethewey
Piano – Freya Jonas
Music Production – Dave Harbottle

Thankyou so much to Neal Megaw for filming, Grace Fox for editing it all together and Rob Moth for Colour Grading!

“Hope in a Jam Jar” which was created and took place last May as part of Kneehigh Theatre’s Random Acts of Art, masterminded by Anna Murphy.
My act of art was based on my Granny’s memory of the Winter of 1933. Granny was nine years old and from her bedroom window witnessed an original act of art – the curate of Nanpean Church, The Reverend Ralph Perry-Gore collecting candles in jam jars and ice skating on the frozen clay pit behind her house. This happened against the backdrop of the great depression. Granny recalls queues of men outside the Methodist Sunday School who were queuing to go onto the dole and miners from ‘down west’ coming up at Christmas to sing carols to collect anything they could to ease their situation.

Automata made by Tony Crosby.

Richard Trethewey- www.richardtrethewey.org
Grace Fox – https://www.youtube.com/c/gracefoxfilms
Neal Megaw- https://www.nealmegaw.com/
Harbottle and Jonas – https://www.harbottleandjonas.com/

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