Apples and Snakes: Blackbox

2017

Blackbox captures performances from the best spoken word artists of today. Witness the strength of a single, passionate voice as poets speak openly and honestly on politics, gender, identity, race and the everyday.

Production

Seasons

6 Episodes • Premiered 2017

1. Roger Robinson - 'Walk with Me'

Roger Robinson is a dozen men. Or more. He was born in Hackney, lived in Trinidad, but spent most of his adult life in London. He is a writer, poet, singer, musician, teacher, scholar, thinker, activist and man of letters. He is one of the few unrelenting and constant observers of life in Brixton, of post-riot/pre-Brexit Britain. He is a serious man with a great sense of humour.

2. Dizraeli - 'Bata Boy'

3. Dizraeli - 'Cool and Calm'

4. Francesca Beard - 'Sleight Mind'

5. Joelle Taylor - 'Everything You Have Ever Lost'

6. Shagufta K - 'Stokes Croft'

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