A review of the Complicité production, based on the 'eco-thriller' by Olga Tokarczuk, at The Barbican Theatre, London, March 2023. First published in Vala, the journal of The Blake Society. "Tokarczuk’s extraordinary novel was notable for the way its militant reading of Blake stood out from the ranks of milquetoast Blakeanism. And we do need to be reminded of what Joyce said of Blake, that ‘his spiritual rebellion against the powers of this world was not made of the kind of gunpowder, soluble in water, to which we are more or less accustomed.’ Complicité’s team understand the thread of Tokarzuk’s interpretation, its’ radical heart, and have brought it vividly to life in this stirring call to activism."
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A review of the Complicité production, based on the 'eco-thriller' by Olga Tokarczuk, at The Barbican Theatre, London, March 2023. First published in Vala, the journal of The Blake Society. "Tokarczuk’s extraordinary novel was notable for the way its militant reading of Blake stood out from the ranks of milquetoast Blakeanism. And we do need to be reminded of what Joyce said of Blake, that ‘his spiritual rebellion against the powers of this world was not made of the kind of gunpowder, soluble in water, to which we are more or less accustomed.’ Complicité’s team understand the thread of Tokarzuk’s interpretation, its’ radical heart, and have brought it vividly to life in this stirring call to activism."