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Alan Morrison's Picaresque: a play for voices
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton Street
London WC2
Nearest Tube: Covent Garden
8pm;
Read and performed by Peter Holt, Roy Birch, Alan Morrison, Robert Allwood and 'Razz'
8 December 2005
Fee: 2 pounds entry / 1 pound concession
The publicity material for this event says:
"Based on the author's experiences working in a Brighton night shelter, Picaresque juxtaposes the hostel with a ship and the 'washed-up' residents with pirates - but this is a metaphor as misleading as the motives of the charity itself...
"Picaresque is not like any other play: Morrison's voice is powerfully vivid, colourfully real - the voice of the voicless"
Munayem Mayenin, New Hope International
"an ambitious and impressive piece of work ... calls to mind Dylan Thomas"
Paul Taylor, Samuel French Ltd.
"...a piece of verse of classical quality" -
Xochitl Tuck, Poetry Express
