Living Passion - Listening to & Performing Bach’s John Passion will be led by Nicholas Mulroy and Margaret Faultless with Bach scholar Bettina Varwig. This project brings together established professionals side-by-side with early-career performers, in an immersive, participatory, in-the-round performance of Bach’s John Passion. Drawing on research on embodied listening practices in Bach’s time, performers will be free to move as they are moved by the music, and to communicating freely with each other and the audience, in order to fully embody the intensity of the musical drama. The culmination of several years of collaborative thinking and many years of accumulated experience of the work, this performance forms the starting point for taking the project and its ideas to a wider range of venues and audiences.