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Dalston Songs
Opens: 03/02/2010 Closes: 06/02/2010
Royal Opera House, London
Built around interviews with inhabitants of the mixed east London neighbourhood, the stories Helen Chadwick has woven into her incredible song-and-theatre production focus on immigration, and notions of home and love of mashed potato. A truly original folk / classical experience from the almost too talented singer, composer and director.
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this is london“Not quite an opera, then, nor a ballet...” Most of the singers are British, and deliver Chadwick’s half-folk, half-classical vocal lines cleanly but with feeling. Not that everything is pain and anguish; a joyous paean to mashed potato makes sure of that...
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The Times“Not so much a narrative as a meditation...” Chadwick's somewhat lackadaisical choruses, meanwhile, don't quite fill the gap. It's left to the rawer sound of the folk singers - one Algerian, one Kurdish - to punch through the fug: their Dalston songs, one senses, come straight from the heart...
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Whatsonstage.com“It brings the stuff of street, bedsit and kebab shop into theatre...” What’s novel about Dalston Songs is the clever setting of everyday speech, with its sneezes, ums and errs and mild obscenities. It’s these that impress the most. The whole leaves us pondering what most of us take totally for granted. Home...
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