The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Jackie Walker
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The Lynching
Friends' Meeting House, Manchester/Touring
JACKIE WALKER is now well-known because of her suspension from the Labour Party over alleged anti-semitic comments.
But this one-woman show, at least initially, is very much the story of her family and a history and tradition of fighting for civil rights.
It starts in the US, where her Jamaican mother Dorothy Brown and Jewish father Jack Cohen were involved in the civil rights movement in the 1950s. Walker recounts the moving story of her parents holding hands as they sit on a segregated bus in the US south while being beaten by the police.
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