What people have said about ...
May Days
Comments from audience members
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Derek Paice, organiser of Downham Songwriters and Poets
It was a splendid and moving performance. Congratulations everyone.
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Shabbir Lakha
Powerful performance of William Alderson’s poem May Days
Elaine Graham-Leigh
This was seriously good - don't miss the video!"
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Comments from performers
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Roger Gartland
Lynx did a great thing in putting the event together. You made a beacon for the truth about Grenfell.
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Shane Chester
Thank you for allowing me to be involved in a great piece of work.
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Reviews​
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Mike Took, Write Out Loud
May Days was fully appreciated by the audience and the performance was a glowing testimony to the writers and actors concerned, all of whom donated their time to the project.
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He also quoted Julia Clark, who said that "it was very skilfully crafted poem which was carefully constructed and captured the mood and feeling of Masque of Anarchy in a way which was relevant to today." She added that "The acting was good and brought the poem to life and helped represent the different voices"; and that "The grime section was brilliantly executed and was potentially the most powerful piece of the poem because it connected more directly with the anger surrounding the fire."
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Cameron Panting, Counterfire
​Describing the poem as an "impressive elegy for our times", he said that it "gave form to the continuing anger against a callous and disregarding establishment, and a voice to those deliberately marginalised."
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"The searing verse", he said, "brings forth a number of characters, struggling, fighting, caring", and "lent itself to a dynamic staging where the actors, performing in traverse, placed at different levels, took on the diverse range of characters, interacting at opportune moments (including a blistering Grime-inspired rap, referencing the union between that scene and the movements for change)."
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He ended by saying that "We need more of these shows, which deal directly with the issues of the day and look them straight in the eye", and​ "the significance of pieces like this, is that they are not just about, but a part of the movements for change."
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An accolade, indeed, and a tribute to the director and performers who realised the poem so powerfully on the stage!
