FringeReview’s Paul Lecy spoke top writer and performer Lisa Day and director Lucy Aley-Parker about Can’t Kill the Spirit. “Can’t Kill the Spirit follows Chloe, a former Greenham Common activist who reclaims her voice of protest, forty years after her experiences at the Peace Camp, where during the 1980s thousands of women lived and campaigned against the installation of cruise missiles…. Inspired by women of protest then and now, Can’t Kill the Spirit is a moving story of reconciling personal and global choices and a timely reminder of the need for upstanders in a world of bystanders.”
And we were also joined by solo performer Jack Bryan who is at the Fringe with his acclaimed show, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! “It’s the late 1970’s, Jack Bryan, a young father, shop steward and steel worker experiences the pain of redundancy just before Christmas and the impending birth of his second child. Caught up in the decline of traditional British Industries he joins the police at a time when that organisation is also in a state of rapid change. For the next 30 years Jack witnesses, first-hand, some of the most important events in late 20th century, British social history: the race riots of the early 80s; the miners’ strike of 84-85; and the decimation of British Industries due to both globalisation and Thatcher.
Coupled with all this, Jack finds himself entering a world which very few people get to know… a kind of psychotic Narnia that is governed by its own rules….In the telling of this story Jack attempts to explain to the general public the reality of this parallel world. The results are both grittily honest, totally enlightening and hilariously funny.”
We were also joined by producer/director of the show. Anita Bigsby.
Both shows play at the Lantern Theatre Brighton during the Fringe and you’ll need to book ASAP!
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