The Legendary Lee Miller
60 to 80 minutes 240 images

The life of Lee Miller, told with reference to those who she inspired creatively – Man Ray, Roland Penrose, Picasso, David E. Scherman, her father Theodore Miller and her son Antony Penrose.

Toured in Australia , New Zealand , USA , Canada and Europe .

Lee Miller’s War
60 minute standard version 230 images.

80 minute extended version, with extra material on Munich and Berchtesgaden 280 images.

Lee Miller’s war photojournalism from shortly after D Day in Normandy to the post war traumas of Austria and Hungary , told through extensive use of Lee Miller’s own words set to her photographs.

Lee Miller in Bavaria
15 minutes 60 images

At the time of the celebrations of 60 th anniversary of V.E. day, Antony Penrose went to the locations photographed by Lee Miller, and re-photographed the same scene as it is now. The result is a poignant documentary of the healing process of time and of the German nation’s process of coming to terms with its own history.

Roland Penrose, The Friendly Surrealist
60 to 80 minutes
160 images on Kodak Carousel

The life of Roland Penrose, illustrated with his own work, contemporary documentation and many photographs by Lee Miller.

Created for the Pilkington Lecture, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester 2003

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose at Farley Farm
35 to 60 minutes
80 images on Kodak Carousel
110 images on Power Point

The biographies of Penrose and Miller and their life together at Farley Farm, their home in Sussex which was frequented by many prominent Surrealist and Modern artists.

Used as the basis for the introduction talk at Farley Farm House.

Lee Miller and Picasso
50 - 90 minutes
80 images on Kodak Carousel
240 images on Power Point

The relationship between Miller and Picasso, which began during the enchanted summer holiday they shared in the Côte d’Azur in 1937 and lasted until Picasso’s death in 1973. Picasso painted 6 portraits of Lee Miller and she photographed him more than 1,000 times.

Created for Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz at the time of their exhibition Picasso’s Women, 2002.

Picasso’s Menagerie
40 to 60 minutes
150 images on Power Point

Picasso, his home and his work see through the eyes of Antony Penrose who was not quite 3 when he first met the artist. The friendship continued during the visits he made with his parents Lee Miller and Roland Penrose to Picasso’s homes in the south of France . Suitable for primary school level up to adult.

Short version available using A3 images for classroom work, as seen on Rolf Harris’ Picasso programme, BBC TV.

Writing Biography
20 minutes
60 images on Kodak Carousel

Antony Penrose’s own story behind writing the biography of his mother, Lee Miller The Lives of Lee Miller, and of the subsequent growth of the Lee Miller Archive. Created for a seminar on biography at the J.P. Getty Museum , Los Angeles , 2003.

Creating an Archive
30 minutes 45 images on Power Point

The story behind the creation of the Lee Miller Archive which houses more than 60,000 negatives of Lee Miller’s work, 10,000 vintage prints plus manuscripts and ephemera. The archive is privately run and finances itself though revenue received from its activities supplying fine prints and intellectual property rights. Created for Southampton Insititute

The Angel and The Fiend
A reading for five voices written and devised by Antony Penrose.

65 minutes 320 images on Kodak Carousel and Power Point

Created for the J.P. Getty Museum , Los Angeles , on the occasion of the exhibition The Surrealist Muse featuring the work of Lee Miller and curated by Weston Naef, 2003.

Lee Miller’s life is told in a constant stream of images and set to words edited from letters and manuscripts by her, Man Ray, Roland Penrose, David E. Scherman and Antony Penrose.

First performed for the J. P. Getty Museum Los Angeles by The Chance Theatre Company in June 2003 at the time of the exhibition The Surrealist Muse. Subsequently peformed for a run at The Chance Theatre, Annaheim, and then in England by Dragon Theatre at the Whitworth Gallery Manchester and The Imperial War Museum North, Manchester . Performed at the 2003 Chiddingly Festival with Ami Bouhassane (Lee Miller’s grand daughter) as Lee Miller, and Antony Penrose as himself.

Winner of the Muchos Huevos Award 2004, Orange County Weekly .
Two performances in Falmouth by Miracle Theatre Co.

All productions require a blacked out auditorium with an 80 shot Kodak carousel projector or Power Point facility with data projector capable of being operated from a lectern which must have a light. In large auditoriums a sound system is helpful.