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Marking what would have been Sylvia Plath鈥檚 90th birthday (Oct 27th, 2022), ARIEL AND WINTER TREES is a vibrant journey through Plath's last collections of poetry. Eschewing academic analysis and autobiographical assumptions, ARIEL AND WINTER TREES offers instead a sonic celebration of Plath鈥檚 work through readings and testimonies by women artists, joined together by an immersive soundscape that allows the listener to truly experience the power and depth of Plath鈥檚 words.

Performed by Dame Si芒n Phillips, Indira Varma, and Eva Feiler with testimonies from authors/poets Lucy Caldwell, Sarah Corbett, Mich猫le Roberts and Chlo茅 Savoie-Bernard, ARIEL AND WINTER TREES includes Plath鈥檚 unique radio-play THREE WOMEN in its first airing since it was written and broadcast for the 麻豆官网首页入口 in August of 1962.

The poems and radio play that form ARIEL and WINTER TREES were written by Plath at the height of her creative powers, when she began to write for her words to be read out loud. Set within every day and other-earthly landscapes, Plath鈥檚 poetic persona shatters its sense of self and picks up the pieces to examine who she is as a woman, mother, daughter, wife. But above all else, Plath鈥檚 poems are an exploration of the range and depths of human emotion, with all its collisions and conflagrations.

Indeed, throughout her anthologies, Plath鈥檚 persona is pushed and pulled between different emotional forces. Forces which twist and reshape Plath鈥檚 poetic voice from being that of a tranquil clairvoyant to a vengeful magician.

An Almost Tangible production for 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3, ARIEL AND WINTER TREES was conceived and directed by Saskia Black, the sound designer was Jon Nicholls and the producers were Charlotte Mel茅n and Eleanor Mein.