MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
‘Something that makes people better is revolutionary’
JO CLIFFORD talks to Angus Reid about politics, life and most of all theatre of which she is a controversial and acclaimed practitioner
Jo Clifford
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
COVID REQUIEM, which will take place at Pitlochry theatre this September, is a first response by theatre-makers to the devastating loss of life that has been suffered in the UK because of the pandemic. It is the initiative of the playwright and performer Jo Clifford.
Her remarkable career spans from classic shows like Ines de Castro and Losing Venice, to her recent monologues as a transgender performer, Jesus, Queen Of Heaven and Eve. The reception of these plays in the UK and internationally gives her good reason to believe in theatre as a tool for social change and collective healing.
Covid Requiem will be a promenade performance through mature woodland, whose itinerary follows the five stages of grief. It is the last production in a remarkable open-air season at Pitlochry that has seen the company adapt to Covid restrictions, and in doing so to develop works that seek a new relationship to the audience and the wider world.
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