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Date and Time

22nd February 2018

Location

St George's, Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2SA

After her successful performance at the Bluecoat in Liverpool, the acclaimed vocalist and movement artist Elaine Mitchener will premier her powerful piece SWEET TOOTH in London on 22nd February at St George’s, Bloomsbury.
 
This ambitious 50 minute music theatre piece uses text, improvisation and movement, to stage a dramatic engagement with the brutal realities of slavery revealed by the historical records of the sugar industry, and to reveal its contemporary echoes.
SWEET TOOTH marks the culmination of five years’ research by Mitchener into our love of sugar and the historical links between the UK sugar industry and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
 
SWEET TOOTH has been supported with public funding from Arts Council England. Commissioned by Bluecoat in partnership with the Stuart Hall Foundation, London and The International Slavery Museum with further support from PRSF Open Fund, Edge Hill University, Centre 151 and St George’s Bloomsbury.
 
Credits:
Concept, Direction & Music: Elaine Mitchener
Movement Direction: Dam Van Huynh
Historical Consultant: Christer Petley
Lighting Design: Alex Johnston
Devised and performed by:
Elaine Mitchener, Sylvia Hallett, Mark Sanders, Jason Yarde
 
SWEET TOOTH was recently featured on the BBC Radio 3 programme Hear and Now, the recording of this programme is available online on the BBC iPlayer Radio.