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The Pied Piper of COVID Rebecca Abrams
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THE PIED PIPER OF COVID: A PLAY IN VERSE
Narrator: Katurah Morrish
Piper: Jack Tivey
Prime Minister: Simon Lenegan
Citizens: Jack Simpson, Sue Swallow, Katie Friedli-Walton, Jack Tivey, Simon Lenegan
Written by Rebecca Abrams
Original music, ‘Out of Here’, composed by Jeremy Arden
Recorded at Evolution Studios, Oxford on 4th December 2020
With many thanks to:
Penny Boreham, Jeremy Arden, Oscar Davies, Esther Shanson, Kate Clanchy, Sally Bayley, Annabel Arden, Andrew Fingret, Ed Howell, Jessie Slim, Solomon Slim and Amanda McKenzie Stewart.
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The Pied Piper of COVID
The Pied Piper of Covid is a verse play written by Rebecca Abrams, a poetic satire of the events of 2020.
Inspired by Robert Browning's 1842 poem, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, this version pinions the parallels with today: a deadly plague, a mob of inept and dishonest leaders, and a shadowy, powerful figure at the heart of government.
But what is the plague in our case? And who exactly are the rats?