EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Peaceophobia
While the subject matter is sobering and serious, this isn't your run-of-the-mill polemic, write INDIE PURCELL
[Ian Hodgson]
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Peaceophobia
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Multi-Storey Car Park
London E15
“IF ISLAM is derived from peace, how can you fear peace?” is the crucial question at the heart of this topical production, challenging everyday Islamophobia faced by young Muslim men.
Premiering in London as part of this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, the setting for Peaceophobia is a multistorey car park (and by all accounts that goes for wherever it’s on), this time it’s east London’s Here East — a legacy site of London’s 2012 Olympics as well as the site for arguably one of London’s biggest gentrification operations within the last 10 years.
It’s perfectly fitting for the story of three young working-class Muslim men who bond over good music and, particularly, car modification — cars being both their sanctuary in escaping rising prejudice as well as ironically a catalyst for it.
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