The Toll Press
Sunderland Peacock
Thursday
12th October 2017
Internationally
renowned performance poet Luke Wright comes to The Peacock in Sunderland supported
Rowan McCabe, the world’s first door to door poet, on 12th October
at 7.30pm.
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| Luke Wright |
There’s a fun darkness at the heart of Luke Wright’s new show. Nestled
among the linguistic bawdy rhyming couplets there’s something more vulnerable.
Here the poet and his characters struggle with doubt, duty and a score of
evenings spent shouting impotently at Question Time.
The poems in the Toll tour the flat-roofed pubs and half-bought couches
of Brexit Britain, and even go back in time to London’s gas-lit 19th century streets.
Meet Edward Dando the oyster-guzzling hero of the late-Georgian
broadsides; witness Iain Duncan Smith being taken to pieces in a poem that
utilises only one type of vowel; and raise a warm can of Stella with the Essex
campers who spot a lion prowling the marshes.
The characters that populate these poems are diverse and strange but
they, like Wright, are all facing moral conundrums. There’s decisions to make;
questions to answer; gin to drink.
Wright makes poetry accessible, normal even. Spend an evening with a
raconteur at the top of his game on 12th October in Sunderland, as he spits out visceral, inventive verse that sweats, bleeds and
sings.
Luke Wright is an award winning poet and theatre-maker. The Toll is his
tenth solo stage show. Since 1999 he’s performed thousands of gigs with
everyone from Beck to Patti Smith. His shows have toured the world and for the
last four years he’s performed to hundreds of thousands of people in Britain as John Cooper Clarke’s warm-up act.
His play What I Learned From Johnny Bevan won a Fringe First and The
Stage Award for Acting Excellence in 2015, a Saboteur Award in 2016, and is
currently nominated for an Off-West End Award. Luke is a regular on BBC
Radio and at Latitude, where he’s co-curated the UK’s biggest spoken word gig since 2006.
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| Rowan McCabe |
Fresh from Glastonbury and local favourite Rowan McCabe, the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet,
supports Luke’s show.
On The
Web:
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Tickets:
This show is part of Sunderland Stages Autumn/Winter 2017 programme.
£5 per person - Tickets are
available here
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