The Lynching

The Lynching: What They Wouldn't Let Jackie Walker Tell You
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Written by Jackie Walker
Date premiered 4 August 2017 (2017-08-04)
Original language English
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The Lynching: What They Wouldn't Let Jackie Walker Tell You is a one-person play by British activist Jackie Walker.[1]

Reception

In The Guardian, Alexei Sayle wrote: "Jackie possesses a lovely singing voice and the honed acting skills of a veteran performer, plus the tragic story of her Jewish civil rights campaigner father and her black Jamaican mother, who was wrongly confined to a mental institution in the US, is worth a show in itself. Jackie is also very funny and frank about her own bolshy nature."[2] Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky said: "I wholeheartedly support the right of anyone to criticise Israel without being branded antisemitic. That goes in particular for Jackie Walker".[3]

Meanwhile, Lee Levitt of The Jewish Chronicle described one performance as "greeted by cheers and a standing ovation".[4] In the Morning Star Bernadette Hyland described it as "a story which Walker brings to life using song and readings" and "a shocking and sorrowful narrative as we follow her mother and siblings from the US to Jamaica and finally to Britain".[1]

The Camden New Journal had the following to say: "Billed as a story of black struggle, racism and Jeremy Corbyn, it mixes politics, humour, drama and song, The Lynching invites the audience-as-jury to hear Jackie’s mother defend her daughter."[5] In The News Ben Fishwick wrote, "Ms Walker's show, The Lynching, sees the audience act as a jury while her mother 'comes to life' defending her actions;"[6], while John Gulliver of The Islington Tribune "found it absorbing and revealing".[7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Hyland, Bernadette (25 January 2017). "Theatre Review Pointed polemic from suspended Labour activist". Morning Star. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Sayle, Alexei (19 November 2017). "On my radar: Alexei Sayle's cultural highlights". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Sugarman, Daniel (14 June 2017). "Jackie Walker compares her Labour suspension for alleged antisemitism to a 'lynching'". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  4. ↑ Levitt, Lee (6 August 2017). "Jackie Walker in Edinburgh: cheers and a standing ovation". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Tomlin, Julie (16 March 2018). "Julie Tomlin's theatre news: The Lynching; Assassins; Passages to Somewhere; Sprint Festival". London: Camden New Journal. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  6. ↑ Fishwick, Ben (17 March 2018). "Controversial Labour activist to speak in Portsmouth". Portsmouth: The News. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Gulliver, John (7 November 2017). "Jackie Walker, the ghost, says we must be free to speak". Derry: The Islington Tribune. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
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