A selection of Ivor Novello's best-loved songs and his doting mother to sing them – a simple enough idea … except nothing can ever be simple when Madame Clara Novello Davies takes centre stage
NOVELLO & SON is a new play by Arnold Evans about
Madame Clara Novello Davies (1861 -1943)
And to those of her generation who never allowed such minor obstacles as class distinction, sex discrimination or the occasional world war to stand in their way.
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The songs are by Clara’s son, Ivor Novello (1893-1951)
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The show features Rosamund Shelley and her pianist Gavin Roberts
Excerpts from Novello & Son
Premiered at Wales Millennium Centre November 2014 –
reviewed in The Western Mail
Further performances in The Rosemary Branch and The Jermyn Street Theatre ( London), the Oundle Festival. the Lower Machen Festival, Newbridge, Blackwood, Llanelli, London Welsh Centre and The Crazy Coqs (London), Brecon. Milford Haven, Ammanford and Newport