Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Recommending The Riots
Come over to the east side people, and see the play now at the Bernie Grant Centre. It's on till the 14th. It's made from verbatim quotes+interviews but it works, especially the first half, as a narrative. It confirmed for me the 'story' of how it all went so wrong on the Saturday night.
41 bus, or 259/279 and a 5 minute walk. Good food too in their bar.
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Permalink Reply by Beewan Athwal on
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Great, going to go see this on Saturday.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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IMHO the first half worked better - they reconstruct the events of, mostly, the saturday night, using voices from different participants. Projected maps etc. It does work, real actors and written by a real playwright. I was interested to learn how it had all happened and this is by far the best explanation I've seen. It's not acted out ie with bricks being chucked about, it just speaks the words from the 80something hours of interviews Slovo made, in appropriate dress.
The second set is the Why half - from politicians, activists, a few hoodies, police. The D Abbott actor is hard now to giggle at as she has the voice perfectly. So you get all the now well rehearsed points of view, and a few you won't have heard.
Yes it is real theatre. What's to lose, except two hours? BGC benefits from Tricycle investment.
Others?
BTW there was a drama-doc on channel 4 last week(?) - Londons Burning - prob still on 4od. It really caught how very frightening it was, how vulnerable we all were. Watch from under the duvet.
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I saw it on Wednesday and agree with Pam. First half very interesting and entertaining. I did not enjoy the second half as much but felt it was well worth seeing.
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I can't possibly say whether you will think it's any good. I do. Some people like oysters, some people like snails.
There are eight chances to see it at BGC this week, so you can do this as well as Collaborators.
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We saw it on Thursday and I entirely agree with Pamish. The first half was more interesting and informative, a very clear exposition. A telling point was made about people coming into the area to clear up afterwards with their new brooms - I'm not sure if that was a local comment, or referred to another area. Quite a lot of giggling about the D Abbott actor, who really does the voice cleverly.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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The "telling point" was from Sadie King about the Pembury Estate in Hackney where she lives. Although Franklyn Addo gave a rather different account in a Guardian article.
Gillian Slovo's Rashomon inevitably over-simplifies and omits as much as it illuminates.
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