IN a town in the middle of nowhere, in the attic of his parents’ house, a man convinced he was born with wings flees from the chaos outside and picks through his confused past. Threnody for the Sky Children is a surreal modern fable that draws inspiration from Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses through poetry, music and mythology.
Poet and performer Jack Dean won the 2012 Ideastap Innovators Award and The Cheltenham Festival of Literature Slam in 2011 Combining music and images to his poetry to create a unique and cutting-edge show, Dean has carried his love of weird and wonderful arrangements of words to many places from the Bowery Poetry Club in New York, Latitude Festival and the Radio 4 National Poetry Slam. Jack likes to take the hip hop medium he grew up with, go out with it, get it drunk and push it down the high street in a shopping trolley full of fireworks at 4am.
This modern fable is on at the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis on Wednesday, July 16.
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