Day of the Locust
Day of the Locust
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The sun is hot. The air is dry.
You have come to California to die.
Award winning multi-instrumentalist and Edinburgh Fringe stalwart storyteller Callum Patrick Hughes rips apart Nathanael West’s 1930's Great American Novel; rebuilding it with loop pedals, guitar drones and a soundscape of broken dreams and fading stardom.
The burning city of Hollwood's Golden Age collides with US contemporary chaos in a production described as part adaptation, part riot, part protest song.
Presented by multi WhatsOnStage Award nominated Fake Escape (Cul-de-Sac, Saving Britney)
Callum Patrick Hughes - Performer/Co-Writer
David Shopland - Co-Writer/Co-Director
Roann Hassani McCloskey - Co-Director"
Location
The Glitch, SE1 7AE