Don't Iraq Iran: London cultural event

(source: Stop War)
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

 Friday 25 May, 2012, 7:30pm

St James's Piccadilly London W1J 9LL

TICKETS:
• Reserved Seats £20 Concessions £15
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• Unreserved Seats £15 Concessions £10 Available but going fast


Don't Iraq Iran Programme

  • Mark Rylance, who has been receiving rave reviews on Broadway and in the West End and is playing a central part in the Olympics opening ceremony, will deliver a surprise recital;
  • Brian Eno, artist, musician, record producer, will perform a brief mystery musical interlude;
  • TV and stage star Roger Lloyd Pack will read poems by the late radical poet Adrian Mitchell;
  • Actor Kika Markham will perform a reading of Homebody/Kabul, originally written as a monologue for her by Tony Kushner;
  • Prize winning Scottish author A.L. Kennedy will perform a reading from her latest novel, Day;
  • Artists Peter Kennard and Cat Phillips, currently exhibiting at the Mosaic Rooms, will perform a reading set to their own images;.
  • Alberto Portugheis, piano virtuoso, antiwar campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will perform two Chopin pieces;
  • British folk legend Julie Felix will be singing her hits Tiger Eyes and Children of Abraham;
  • The benefit begins with Roy Bailey and Tony Benn performing their sell out journey through the history of British radicalism, The Writing on the Wall.

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