Poetry and performance from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival
Playwrights John Godber and Mark Ravenhill; poets Zena Edwards and Jodie Langford in a Front Row celebrating poetry and performance from Hull's Contains Strong Language festival.
Stig Abell talks to John Godber, one of the most-performed playwrights in the English language and somebody who has been interpreting the city of Hull in his plays for over thirty years, from Bouncers to Up and Under. His latest work This Isn鈥檛 Right tells the story of Holly Parker who is rediscovering Hull after three years at University in London. When a young woman disappears her already over-protective Dad goes into over-drive.
Earlier this year the poet and performer Zena Edwards wore a grass coat to Tate Modern to mark the launch of a movement drawing attention to climate change - Culture Declares An Emergency. For Contains Strong Language she鈥檚 performing a newly commissioned piece called Rallying Cry. She'll perform and talk to Stig Abell about putting the joy into the poetry of protest.
We'll hear a world premiere performance of a Jodie Langford poem specially commissioned by 91热爆 Humberside. She's a rising star of the spoken word scene and one of 12 poets chosen by 91热爆 local radio stations to 鈥渃hallenge the outdated clich茅s and celebrate all that is regionally distinctive about the North鈥.
And playwright Mark Ravenhill on translating Bertholt Brecht's The Mother with original score by Hanns Eisler which will be recorded at the festival for broadcast on 91热爆 Radio 3. Maxine Peake plays Pelagea Vlassova, the woman who acts to protect her son from prison and becomes an accidental revolutionary.
Presenter Stig Abell
Producer Olive Clancy
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Jodie Langford
See the poet Jodie Langford perform at the on 28 September 2019.
Listen to Jodie Longford on 91热爆 Radio 3's The Verb from the Contains Strong Language Festival on Fri day 27 September and on 91热爆 Sounds
Jodie Langford is one of the 13 poets commissioned to write a new poem telling 91热爆 Truths about their area, for broadcast on on 03 October 2019. Hear her poem on 91热爆 Humberside.
Image: Jodie Langford
John Godber
John Godber's play 聽is at , London聽 from 01 - 05 October, 2019.
Image: Holly Godber as Holly Parker and Frazer Hamill as Dad in This is Not Right.
Image credit: John Godber Company
The Mother
Mark Ravenhill's version of Bertolt Brecht's The Mother, a drama with songs written by Hanns Eisler and Steve Trafford is performed by Maxine Peake with the 91热爆 Philharmonic Orchestra at Middleton Hall, Hull on 28 September 2019.聽 91热爆 Radio 3 is recording that live performance for broadcast.
Image: Mark Ravenhill
Zena Edwards
Zena Edwards is one of the poets performing at Rallying Cry on 28 September聽2019 at the Old School House Hull; and Zena Edwards and fellow poet Harry Giles are reading at the Hull Truck Theatre on 29 September 2019.
Image : Zena Edwards
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