{"id":2596,"date":"2010-04-16T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=2596"},"modified":"2010-04-16T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:00:56","slug":"rebecca-sharp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/?page_id=2596","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/Photos\/r_sharp.jpg\" alt=\"Rebecca Sharp\" title=\"Rebecca Sharp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rebecca Sharp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>writer and musician, born in Glasgow in 1979, currently based in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Immediately upon graduating from the University of Glasgow in 2001, Rebecca&rsquo;s first play Last Child was performed at the Arches Theatre in Glasgow (dir. Neil Doherty), subsequently at HERE Arts Center in NYC in 2002 (dir. Michele Travis).&nbsp; Her play Danger: Hollow Sidewalk was performed at the Arches Theatre in 2006 (dir. Neil Doherty).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She has played the lever (Celtic) harp since she was a child, having heard it in Scottish traditional music.&nbsp; Rebecca moved to Liverpool in 2004 and began developing her solo work in music and spoken-word.&nbsp; She made her first EP of harp compositions with spoken-word, The Mystery Workshop, in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She frequently collaborates with other musicians, writers and artists in creating cross-disciplinary performances and projects, incorporating both her musical and written work.&nbsp; In 2008 she composed the harp score for Eleanor Rees&rsquo;s long poem Eliza and the Bear, which is an ongoing performance project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As an Artist in Residence with Metal Liverpool (2009 &#8211; 2010), she wrote the text and score for her poetry performance, The Ballad of Juniper Davy and Sonny Lumi&egrave;re, first shown in Liverpool in May 2010. The text is published by Spike poetry press in Liverpool.&nbsp; The project incorporated performed poetry and live music, with visual installations by Elizabeth Willow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She has appeared as a guest on BBC Radio Merseyside and on BBC Radio 2&rsquo;s The Verb.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8218;&#8230;fascinatingly complex, audacious and at times brain-poppingly clever work.&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>The Glasgow Herald<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccajoysharp.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.rebeccajoysharp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/rebeccajoysharp \" target=\"_blank\">www.myspace.com\/rebeccajoysharp  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Mystery Workshop (CD), Joy Recordings 2009, JR001.<\/p>\n<p>The Ballad of Juniper Davy and Sonny Lumi&egrave;re (Book &amp; CD), Spike Publishing 2010<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gruenrekorder:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Joy Sharp &amp; Simon Whetham: &ldquo;<a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/?page_id=2874\">The Clearing<\/a>&rdquo; (Gr 077\/10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rebecca Sharp writer and musician, born in Glasgow in 1979, currently based in Liverpool. &nbsp; Immediately upon graduating from the University of Glasgow in 2001, Rebecca&rsquo;s first play Last Child was performed at the Arches Theatre in Glasgow (dir. Neil Doherty), subsequently at HERE Arts Center in NYC in 2002 (dir. Michele Travis).&nbsp; Her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2596","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}