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Publication Date:- 2018-02-17
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Billie Holiday inspired show:- 'Who Wants to Live Forever?' is heading to Oldham Library for March 2018

WRITER, director, performer, poet and jazz singer Cheryl Martin is taking her Billie Holiday inspired show Who Wants to Live Forever? on tour this year, following the show's success in Manchester last Autumn.

The hour long, 1 woman show told from the heart will be performed at theatres across the UK including Oldham Library which opens the tour, on Thursday, 15 March 2018.  The tour will also be stopping off in:- Sheffield, London, Brighton, Leeds, Liverpool and finally, York.

A jazz fantasy about loss, love and hope, set among the stars, 'Who Wants to Live Forever?'  combines science fact, real world psychological observation and autobiography with lots of live jazz vocals to ask why some stars shine more brightly than others, human and celestial, and why people love to watch them falling.

It's all channelled through the music of legendary African American jazz singer Billie Holiday, the 1st star Cheryl wished on as a child.



Cheryl Martin explains:- "My father had a really good jazz collection, lots of be bop, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. Billie was my main influence, and I talk about singing along when I used to share a bunk bed with my little sister.  In the show, I wonder why people are so fascinated by falling stars, both human and the real thing. I talk about how stars are formed and why I love to go camping and look at the stars. I also talk about my family, about my little brother and how he died. They told me a white guy was shooting into cars with Black people in them."

Martin's brother was hit, finally passing away 20 years later at the age of 39.  She adds:- "Like my other show Alaska, Who Wants to Live Forever? ended up being about my own life because I didn't know how to digest what happened any other way. Most people in society don't talk about these things either, and people don't know how to talk to you. The show is also very funny though. The truth of life is that nobody cries all the time."



'Who Wants to Live Forever?' is directed by Darren Pritchard, with lighting and set design by Andrew Crofts and dramaturgy by Sonia Hughes.

A work in progress version was previously part of the 2017 PUSH Festival, the annual celebration of some of the North West's most creative and exciting talent. The Dukes in Lancaster also provided a week's residency for the show in September 2017.

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