The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Brilliant light on legacy of Lindisfarne's music for a new generation
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Clear White Light
Live Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
JOE DOUGLAS, recently appointed artistic director at Live Theatre, makes a brilliant debut with his first production for the company.
Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Fall of the House of Usher, and beautifully written for the stage by Olivier Award-nominated writer Paul Sirett, the play is inspired by the experience of Alan Hull, founder of 1970s folk-rock group Lindisfarne, and his time working in the psychiatric unit at St Nicholas’s Hospital in Gosforth.
Douglas’s direction deftly brings the story up to date and subtly but firmly confronts the current cuts and threats to the NHS, particularly in relation to the inadequacies of mental health provision.
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