Luke Wright’s Cynical Ballads

Start Date : April 27, 2011
End Date : April 27, 2011
Time : to

Location :
The Unity Theatre, Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG

Description

Starring obese teenagers, jaded chip shop proprietors and posh twits with the luck of the devil, Luke Wright’s Cynical Ballads lead us through the run down shopping precincts and airless television studios of modern Britain.

Against a backdrop of projected illustrations from the macabre mind of Sam Ratcliffe Wright makes mincemeat of his anti-heroes with rollicking, darkly comic verse. Expect screaming tabloids, suicide and lashings of Bollinger in a show that will shock and delight.

“The best young performance poet around.” The Observer

“Performance poetry’s key revivalist.” Metro

“Luke Wright shapes verse from the leading edge of the rejuvenated spoken word scene. Comic, acute, rhythmic eulogies to modern life” The Independent

“He must be on some kind of dope.” John Cooper Clarke