Paul Robeson’s Love Song – an audio play
Tayo Aluko & Friends (Nigeria/UK)
Clearing out their late mother’s belongings, two siblings in Kenosha
discover a package containing a record, suggesting a possible hidden
romantic link between their grandmother and African-American singer and
activist Paul Robeson, dating back to 1949. Watching coverage of
protests at the latest police shooting happening in their city, they
recall her story of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Communist protests at
a Robeson concert outside Peekskill, NY. The tense and uncertain run-up
to the November 2020 elections reveals the best and the worst of their
country in violent conflict, in a repeat of that hot summer of 1949.
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Author Tayo Aluko
Language Performed in English
Captioning Automatic closed captions in English
Dates Available now
Format Digital on-demand
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Theatre
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£12.00 -
29 September 2022 -
56 minutes -
C ARTS | C venues | C digital -
portal – on demand -
12+ (guidance) -
Contains distressing themes, contains some anti-Semitic and racist language
