The Read Season 1
A series of four creative performance readings of iconic British novels. Each episode is directed by exciting emerging talent.
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Performance reading of A Vision of Loveliness by Louise Levene. A darkly comic novel that reveals the seedy underbelly of London in the 1960s, rich with period detail.
A creative performance reading of a powerful novel of disaffection that charts a young man's uneasy passage into adulthood.
A performance reading of the abridged novel On the Black Hill, by Bruce Chatwin. Identical twin brothers grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home.
A creative performance reading of The Lonely Londoners that juxtaposes modern imagery and fascinating archive footage to reflect on how Sam Selvon's novel shaped the London of today.
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