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April 16, 2010Countdown to first night (Day 3) of three once-in-a-decade ritual performances of The Southwark Mysteries in Southwark Cathedral next Thursday 22nd April. All performances are fully booked. If you’d like to see a free rehearsal-performance…
Tomorrow, Saturday 17th at nOOn
at The Scoop, More London
near London Assembly Building, riverside SE1:
I might be a tart, but I got a kind heart
And me dad would’ve been in the Marshalsea
Now I’ve come here to be free
So I took a part in John Crows play
So I could come to the southwark and have my say
All I ever wanted was love
And all I ever got was glove
But now that fella John Crow
Come to help us prostitutes see
That we could all be free
And you’ll all see we’ll let the love in
and our hearts will run free
Truely this will be a Southwark Mystery
Irene sings: Mercy Now! accompanying herself on autoharp. So haunting and plaintive, opening hearts which the Sisters of Redcross proceed to transfigure By The Grace of Our Lady Mary Overie. And I Am All THe Death And Pain – a massed band of fierce feisty women of all ages – jaws in the audience visibly drop!
Great Dover Street Woman
Amazon! Infamy!
As old as Christ Jesus
Mercury at my heels
Weary from battle, laid to rest
I cannot speak my secrets
Though all shall be unearthed.
Flint and bone,
Shard on stone.
Honoured.
Eight lamps to light my way.
Amazon! Infamy!
An arena spectacular
Two ladies in leather
Cut and slash. This girl fought well.
‘Respected but not respectable’
My glory earned,
My body burned.
Libations.
The grace in my disgrace.
Amazon! Infamy!
You ask your questions
That have no answers
Did I choose, was I chosen?
Was I freeborn? Was I slave?
Illicit fun?
My battle won?
Daughter of Rome.
Mystery of Southwark.
We cannot speak our secrets
Though all shall be unearthed.
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Awesome! I wound up proceedings with the invocation from The Book of The Magdalene, in which the Cathedral opens its heart to receive her. Some community cast members got quite choked up.
To see Jesus drive our Devils in the community cast rehearsals in the videos by Princess Lint click here
And I was one of the “choked”. If ever I hear, “She is come, out of Egypt by Greenwich” and fail to weep, you can bury me cos I will be already be a gonner.
How great to be standing speaking John’s very powerful poem/prayer to our Goddess of Mercy and the one the accompanies Jesus’ death. Not surprised there were dropped jaws.
So good too, to listen to the other people’s poetry too. Sarah’s female gladiator was great and I really loved how she got us all involved. Would it be possible to have Zoe’s words printed as I miseed quite a bit of it.
And now for a little story, a little Herstory. Back in the day, long long ago ( that’s proper old skool, my little Johnnycrow-come-lately), before Zeus started bigdicking his way around the known world and turning her into a jealous harridan of a wife, the Great Goddess Hera was worpshipped by many. Her male followers were called heroes, and strange to tell, her females followers were not heroines, but hera, just like the Boss. So, off with the shackles, be brave and reclaim the Name. Big smiles and One Love, Jen x
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