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A Place at the Table

I wrote the music for a play called "A Place at the Table" at Camden People's Theatre, April 2009, directed by Paul Burgess. My score was for solo soprano (Grace Nyandoro) who, by the end of the play, had 'found her voice' and sang this song in full, whilst the audience was left to observe the remnants of the play, the wreckage of the subject. ***A bold artistic journey tracing the shockwaves from the 1993 assassination of Burundi’s President Ndadaye backwards through Colonialism to ancient myth and forwards to the Rwandan genocide and conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A thoughtful, powerful response to the decades-old crisis in the African Great Lakes region. A shared act of remembering, questioning and defiance. A meditation on the nature of violence. A collaboration between performers, artists, experts and eye-witnesses. A new and original performance from an international company that takes visual and verbatim theatre to new places. A place at the table to which you are invited.***

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