BEN OKRI
Ben Okri: The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot. – Marylebone Theatre
Thursday 22 September 2022
“The awful daring of a moment’s surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract …”
― T S Eliot, The Waste Land
11 Nov 19.30
A stirring one-man performance of T.S.Eliot’s iconic long poem by one of Britain’s most acclaimed poets and novelists. Ben Okri, Booker prize-winning author of The Famished Road, will give a solo, on-book rendition of The Waste Land to mark its one hundredth anniversary. The piece will be directed by Geraldine Alexander, an acclaimed actress and writer, who has appeared extensively on stage and screen. It will be accompanied by a delicate, musical underscoring and live dance by Charlotte Jarvis.
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