Thursday, 31 July 2008

Riding Lights at the Lambeth Conference

Luke Waldock, Israel Oyelumade, Charles Hanley, Rhian McLean, Amy Todd and Sally Okafor

Riding Lights has performed at the Lambeth Conference this week, the ten-yearly meeting of the bishops of the Anglican Communion.

On Monday the team of six actors performed a short piece called Making Peace by Paul Burbridge as part of the Spouses Conference of events. On Tuesday, the spouses led a joint session with the bishops on the abuse of power which began with Daughters of the House by Bridget Foreman and which introduced the issues by weaving together a number of Bible stories illustrating Jesus’s attitude to women. According to the Anglican Communion News Service (and indeed the accounts of the performers) "the drama – which reduced many members of the audience to tears – was followed by prolonged applause".


Paul Burbridge and Israel Oyelumade

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