Paul Robeson’s Love Song. An Audio Play (With Images)

About Paul Robeson’s Love Song. An Audio Play (With Images)

MAY DAY SPECIAL FUNDRAISER FOR THE CANARY

This critically acclaimed audio play is being made available for ticket buying supporters of The Canary to listen to at their leisure in the period between 6pm BST on Wednesday 29 April and 11am BST on Saturday 2 May. There will be a chance to discuss the play with the writer, some of the creatives and with other Canary supporters and staff: at 12 noon Saturday 2 May.

Synopsis:

While clearing out their late mother's belongings in August 2020, two siblings discover a package containing a record, suggesting a possible romantic link between their grandmother and Paul Robeson, dating back to 1949.

As they watch coverage of protests at the latest police shooting happening down the road from them, they recall their mother telling them of protests at a Robeson concert outside Peekskill NY on September 4, 1949.

They realise that as a child, she had witnessed the best and the worst of their country in violent conflict in the same way as was unfolding now in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Contains some racist and anti-Semitic language.

This is an imagined story based around the Peekskill and Kenosha happenings.

Length: 55 minutes. Followed by Q&A with the author and other creatives.

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