MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Moving, mesmerising, memorable
PAUL FARMER highly recommends Reg Meuross’s tour Stolen From God, a collection of songs confronting the legacies of the slave trade
(L to R) Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne and Reg Meuross
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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
Reg Meuross and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne with Karen Gledhill
Devoran Acoustic Sessions
SOME aspects of events, past or present can be too appalling to contemplate, so ambitious work such as Reg Meuross’s song cycle Stolen From God has a significant job to do leading our attention into and through the realities of a part of history that still has enormous implications in the contemporary world: the slave trade.
It does it well.
Meuross is currently touring the piece in the UK. His performance at Devoran was with Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on anglo concertina, melodeon and voice. Other tour dates will also feature Suntou Susso on kora, and different narrators.
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