HUGH LUPTON, ON COMMON GROUND an evening of stories, songs and music exploring the life and times of JOHN CLARE @ The Key Theatre

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The landscape holds the memory of everyone who has ever trodden it - all we have to do is listen. In this programme of story, music, poetry and song. Hugh Lupton puts his ear to the ground and tells the story of the English Enclosures through the lens of John Clare. It is a performance that explores the porous boundaries between language and place, madness and exile, love and loss.

“Sheer wizardry in the guise of utter simplicity…a packed house sat in a thrall of enchantment”Eastern Daily Press

 “…. The images that billowed and faded in that darkened auditorium were quite different from those that unspool across a screen. I could put my hands in front of my face and the pictures would not vanish. They were inside me. They belonged to me. They were part of the history of the whole of human life.”

The Times

This is a programme that sings of the unsung and remembers the forgotten histories of the soil.