Readers needed for Pre-recorded version of Samson Agonistes!!!

Join our Miltonathon Commemorating the 350th anniversary of Milton’s death 2024 marks the 350th anniversary of Milton’s death. To commemorate, Milton’s Cottage Trust is staging a collective reading of Milton’s work online. From actors to academics, politicians to prisoners, students to stagehands, this will be a collective performance by literature lovers everywhere. Contributions are being made from across the globe. As part of these celebrations’ a pre-recorded version of Milton’s poem Samson Agonistes is being made with Cambridge students.

The 24-hour Miltonathon will take place on 8th November 2024 – 350 years from the date of Milton’s death. The event will start at 11am GMT, taking approximately 24 hours to complete, and will include both live and pre-recorded segments.
Here is a link to further information about the event should you wish to know
more: https://www.miltonscottage.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Miltonathon_invitation-to-participate-2.pdf

How you can get involved:
In advance of the event Milton’s long poem Samson Agonistes will be pre-recorded as a bespoke film. We are looking to recruit as many readers as possible for this project. Each of the seven parts in the poem will be shared by numerous speakers and edited together to create a complete dramatic reading. Participants record the sections themselves and are assigned readings which are as long or short as each individual wishes. The finished film will be streamed as part of the Miltonathon and then preserved as an educational resource by the Milton Cottage Trust.
If you would be able to give a reading as part of this project please fill in this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PPYRDlQj3XeMJmNDTiecQOuGydaOOcthvmMARwXLIMM
to find out more please contact Aelfred Hillman: arh218@cam.ac.uk

Contact arh218@cam.ac.uk before 1st Nov 2024 00:00 for more details.