"Joe Strummer Takes a Walk" - an interesting play streaming this week
In mid-September the Cervantes Theatre launched their Autumn Season of 10 dramatised readings of English translations of new (or nearly new) plays by Spanish playwrights. The readings were filmed in the theatre, after 2 days of rehearsal, and then each one was presented at 7 pm on a Thursday, with an introduction and a Q&A with the playwright, the actors, and the director, and then the recordings would be available for about 38 hours. With the November lockdown, they decided to postpone the last three productions, but I was there at 7 pm sharp for almost all of the other productions and they've all been worth seeing.
Last week the theatre announced that they would be making the recordings available again, each for a week, and this is the week of my favourite play so far: Joe Strummer Takes a Walk, by Juan Alberto Salvatierra. In 1985 Joe Strummer of the Clash was visiting Granada, and when he learned that Lorca's body was lying undiscovered somewhere in the countryside near the city, he decided to go out one night with a pick and shovel to try to find him. The play is based on this true event, and is a monologue that's performed in this production by the Scottish actor Robert Bradley. I've seen him in a couple of other Cervantes Theatre productions and he really stood out, so I was particularly looking forward to this and he did not disappoint. I knew almost nothing aboiut Joe Strummer going in as I was never into punk, but the play has a lot to say about artistic influences and integrity and about fame, and I'm very glad of the chance to see it again. It's available until the end of Sunday, and you can find it on the Cervantes Theatre homepage. This entry was originally posted at https://helenraven.dreamwidth.org/489446.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
Last week the theatre announced that they would be making the recordings available again, each for a week, and this is the week of my favourite play so far: Joe Strummer Takes a Walk, by Juan Alberto Salvatierra. In 1985 Joe Strummer of the Clash was visiting Granada, and when he learned that Lorca's body was lying undiscovered somewhere in the countryside near the city, he decided to go out one night with a pick and shovel to try to find him. The play is based on this true event, and is a monologue that's performed in this production by the Scottish actor Robert Bradley. I've seen him in a couple of other Cervantes Theatre productions and he really stood out, so I was particularly looking forward to this and he did not disappoint. I knew almost nothing aboiut Joe Strummer going in as I was never into punk, but the play has a lot to say about artistic influences and integrity and about fame, and I'm very glad of the chance to see it again. It's available until the end of Sunday, and you can find it on the Cervantes Theatre homepage. This entry was originally posted at https://helenraven.dreamwidth.org/489446.html. Please comment there using OpenID.