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John Constable does 'Crow's Nest' At the Golden Hinde ship

crossbones 2008 154Saturday 11th July: 7pm THE CROW'S NEST

A Pirate Poetry Grog Fest aboard The Golden Hinde, working replica o' Drake's galleon, moored in Mary Overie dock next to Southwark Cathedral ... Cap'n John Crow, aka John Constable, performs poems and songs from The Southwark Mysteries - inspired by the history o' Bankside and the Liberty o' the Clink... wi' Bosun Niall McDevitt and other bucaneer poets o' the London performance scene. Tom Baker (The Bohemianauts) will squeeze 'is box and spit 'is own dark ballads.

There be 'Spit Yer Piece' floor spots to speak yer own favourite nautical verses. There be sea-shanties, street-songs and 'The Ballad of Mary Overie' for scurvy sea-dogs to sing along to... And a barrr servin' up tots o' grog and wine! Optional fancy dress-code: pirates or tarts (Winchester Geese). £8 / £5 concs. No advance booking. RSVP mysteries@boltblue.com then turn up before 7pm to get yer place:

The Golden Hinde, Mary Overie dock, London SE1 (London Bridge for tube, rail and bus) .. for more on John Crow July 11 in spoken-word

 
 
 
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Times Saturday review:

"It seems there is nothing not being attempted during the ambitious, two-week run of the first London Bridge Festival, a would-be attempt at the capital's version of the Edinburgh Fringe. Comedy, film, art, dance, music - you name it, it's happening. That might suggest that the quality control knob has been torn off and tossed into the Thames - happily, it hasn't. Drawing heavily on the historic locale, there will be plays at the Rose Theatre, Bankside (home to early works by Shakespeare and Marlowe), the Southwark Playhouse, and the wonderful Old Operating Theatre, a museum that does what it says on the tin, housing the oldest operating Theatre in London. It's well worth getting along to see something as well as the shows, the locations are a knockout. Various venues, London Bridge. "
 
London Bridge Festival 2009