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Tayo Aluko & Friends / Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown
Friday 27 March - 6.30pm / Spread Eagle Pub Theatre
Tickets £10/£8 or buy a day pass for £24/£18 and see all Byron Vincent (8.15pm) and Ellie Scanlan (10pm) as well
Suitable for 12+
In Freetown, George Coleridge-Taylor plans a concert tour to return his deceased relative, renowned composer and one-time Croydon resident Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to prominence by presenting a concert of his songs. Sierra-Leone’s history and politics threaten to drown out the music, but he persists nonetheless, with optimism.
A work in progress by writer/performer Tayo Aluko, this "undiplomatic musical historical play" with live piano accompaniment by Thomas Kell, imagines how, through the lens of a modern-day relative, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's life can be appreciated from an internationalist perspective.
Nigerian-born Tayo Aluko is an actor, singer and playwright, based in Liverpool, UK, where he worked previously as an architect.
His award-winning play, CALL MR. ROBESON has been performed as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as New Zealand, with a performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in February 2012.
JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER was premiered in August 2016 and has been performed in five countries.
His art is dedicated to encouraging and inspiring progressive activism by showing how Black History is everybody’s history.
“Every socialist, anti-racist and anti-imperialist will love this” Socialist Worker on Just An Ordinary Lawyer
www.tayoalukoandfriends.com
Tickets £10/£8 or buy a day pass for £24/£18 and see all Byron Vincent (8.15pm) and Ellie Scanlan (10pm) as well
Suitable for 12+
In Freetown, George Coleridge-Taylor plans a concert tour to return his deceased relative, renowned composer and one-time Croydon resident Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to prominence by presenting a concert of his songs. Sierra-Leone’s history and politics threaten to drown out the music, but he persists nonetheless, with optimism.
A work in progress by writer/performer Tayo Aluko, this "undiplomatic musical historical play" with live piano accompaniment by Thomas Kell, imagines how, through the lens of a modern-day relative, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's life can be appreciated from an internationalist perspective.
Nigerian-born Tayo Aluko is an actor, singer and playwright, based in Liverpool, UK, where he worked previously as an architect.
His award-winning play, CALL MR. ROBESON has been performed as far north as the Arctic Circle and as far south as New Zealand, with a performance at New York’s Carnegie Hall in February 2012.
JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER was premiered in August 2016 and has been performed in five countries.
His art is dedicated to encouraging and inspiring progressive activism by showing how Black History is everybody’s history.
“Every socialist, anti-racist and anti-imperialist will love this” Socialist Worker on Just An Ordinary Lawyer
www.tayoalukoandfriends.com
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