Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Fighting her corner
MAYER WAKEFIELD sees grime poet Debris Stevenson score heavily in her battle against prejudice
Poet in the Corner
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
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JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Poet in da Corner
Royal Court Theatre, London
GRIME poet, pansexual ex-Mormon and bashment-dancing social activist Debris Stevenson is not just speaking for herself when she states at this show's opening that Dizzee Rascal’s seminal Boy in the Corner gave her “permission to exist.”
From Alex Turner to Danny Brown, the ageless grime album has inspired artists across the board, but Stevenson takes things to another level by dedicating 75 minutes of full-throttle energy to a semi-autobiographical musical in homage to the 2003 masterpiece and its parent genre.
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