The Park Bench Reader is an ongoing performance series by the artist Bram Thomas Arnold. Regular Sunday afternoons find Bram reading a classic work of English Literature to passing members of the public. In 1840 Joseph Strutt opened England's first public park, the decade went on to give voice to a whole generation of England's finest authors. The Park Bench Reader seeks to draw these two seemingly unassociated events together again and question the pace of life in a society ever racing forward.

Thursday, 10 April 2008

The Park Bench Reader. Volume 4 (for 6). Tuesday 26th February. 3pm. Part of http://whippitnights.blogspot.com

Read: The works of Thomas Hardy. The Mayor of Casterbridge; Jude the obscure; Far from the madding crowd; The Woodlanders; Under the greenwood tree; A pair of blue eyes.

6 different readers simultaneously reading from 6 different Hardy novels on the Dartington Estate, Dartington College of Art.

Notes. 1 German reader, 1 American, 1 incident involving permission, 6 different types of biscuit, 6 opportunities.

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