ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
Moving new requiem to honour the miners
SHIRLEY CLARK is moved by a dignified and defiant new work, written to commemorate the strike in 84-85
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a play about AI that results in a deadening disconnect for its audience
SIMON PARSONS applauds an insightful state-of-the-nation play that explores the growing class divide in South Africa
“HERE we go, here we go for the women of the working class!”
Chesterfield Parish Church — The Crooked Spire — rang out with this anthem from the ’84-85 Miners Strike on the evening of Saturday October 12.
The occasion was the inaugural performance of A Northern Requiem, written by local teacher and musician Jonathan Francis. Over 300 people were in the audience. Francis wrote it to commemorate the strike and the communities “who were left to fend for themselves when everything they knew had collapsed.”
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