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LUKE WRIGHT presents THE BALLAD SELLER

0	CONSTANTINE: The Tolmen Centre
P	Saturday 21st January, 2023
N	6:00pm

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We welcome back the ever popular Luke Wright for another evening of poetry, performance and comic verse

Back in Georgian times we got our news from poetry. Before papers, broadcasts or the internet, ballad sellers would hawk their doggerel on street corners for a penny. Scandalous affairs, grisly crimes, and colourful characters were brought to life in rhyming verse long before the first tabloid was printed.

Now Luke Wright has rewritten the very best of these stories for the modern ear: take a trip through the Drury Lane gin shops with the Boxing Baroness; filch oysters by the dozen with Dando, the celebrated gormandiser; and escape the Bull Ring with Jemmy the Rockman. Expect scandal, excess, and beautiful flawed humanity.

WINNER Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Performer 2021

Luke will also perform a second half of his contemporary poems.

“His performances rumble with rage, passion and humour. They are also peppered with brilliantly smart observations. You will leave his show brimming with energy, heart pounding and brain whirring.” Guardian

“Wright’s full-throated reverie is spellbinding.” The Mirror

Pre show suppers available at the venue - must prebook cia 01326 340630