Online Book launch: Michelle Penn Paper Crusade
This event on 22nd June 2022 at 19:00 has past.
Contact: cherry@arachnepress.com
Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/paper-crusade-book-launch-online-tickets-345191837077
Introducing Paper Crusade: a poetical re-imagining of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Michelle Penn who uses vivid imagery and startling, sensual language to create an unforgettable dystopia for our own time.
On a wasted island in perpetual sun, the Father practices magic, laments his lost kingdom and commands a ragtag army of three: the passionate and damaged Daughter, the winged Spirit and an indigenous being known only as C. Behind their uniforms — white suits and full-face paper masks — the soldiers seethe with rebellion...
Inspired by a contemporary dance piece The Tempest Replica, Paper Crusade addresses many of Shakespeare's original themes - power, colonialism, the environment, magic, music and language - and their relevance for us all today.
“A visionary, intertextual journey that takes us far beyond standard retelling or response to Shakespeare. Penn brings new life to the characters here, with an incantatory power that threatens to lose us in the words and the waves but always takes us somewhere captivating and unexpected.” - Luke Kennard
Join us online for poetry readings, conversation and audience participation - Haiku and Shakespearean insults are planned!
Time: 7:00pm
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