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THUR 2 MAR 20.30–21.45
LIVE AT KINGS PLACE
Precious Goods
Allan Corduner, Gemma Rosefield | Written by Nicolas Kent
Winter 1942: a train passes through a forest in Eastern Europe.
destination unknown. Twin babies are aboard, only one is rescued. In
the forest in a clearing beside the railway-line a poor woodcutter’ s
wife is foraging for firewood in the snow, all she has ever wanted is a
child…have the gods answered her prayers?
Based on the 2019 publishing sensation The Most Precious of Cargoes
by French writer Jean-Claude Grumberg, the specially commissioned
Precious Goods, translated and adapted by Nicolas Kent, is read by
Topsy-Turvy & Yentl star Allan Corduner with original music by cellist
Gemma Rosefield.
H1
20.30–21.45
£20
Come to This Court & Cry
Linda Kinstler
At the very moment the last survivors – and legal witnesses – were
dying, a criminal investigation in Latvia put hard-won facts about
the Holocaust on the line. Then journalist Linda Kinstler discovered
that a Nazi, 50 years dead and from the same killing unit as her
grandfather, could be pardoned by the proceedings.
Nominated for the 2023 Wingate Prize, the probing and profound
Come to This Court & Cry: How the Holocaust Ends investigates both
family story, the nature of memory and the archives of ten nations to
examine what it takes to prove history in our uncertain century.
H2
20.30–21.30
£15
Lost, Loved & Left: Poetry & Spoken Word
Sarah Blake, Oakley Flanagan, Rachel Long, Jeremy Robson
Chair: Rishi Dastidar
Guardian poetry reviewer and The Craft editor Rishi Dastidar hosts
an hour of readings. Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year nominee
Rachel Long’s My Darling From The Lions was a TIME book of 2020
and shortlisted for the Costa. Festival favourite Jeremy Robson
covers Picasso, post-Brexit chaos, the horrors of recent Jewish history
and more in Chagall’s Moon. National Jewish Book Award winner
Sarah Blake’s epic poem of survival In Springtime follows a nameless
protagonist lost in the woods. And ruth weiss Emerging Poet winner
Oakley Flanagan’s G&T is a long poem in free-verse and prose,
exploring queerness, sexuality and shame.
StP
28
20.30–21.30
£9.50