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| | name = The Lynching: What They Wouldn't Let Jackie Walker Tell You | |||
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| '''The Lynching: What They Wouldn't Let Jackie Walker Tell You''' | |||
| <ref name="morningstaronline">{{cite news |last=Hyland|first=Bernadette|url=https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pointed-polemic-from-suspended-labour-activist|title=Theatre Review Pointed polemic from suspended Labour activist|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=25 January 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="thejc3"/><ref name="aboutmanchester">{{cite news |last=Brown|first=Alan|url=http://www.aboutmanchester.co.uk/jackie-walker-brings-the-lynching-to-manchester/|title=Jackie Walker brings ‘The Lynching’ to Manchester|work= |location= |publisher=''About Manchester''|date=3 January 2018|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="islingtontribune">{{cite news |last=Gulliver|first=John|url=http://www.islingtontribune.com/article/jackie-we-must-be-free-to-speak|title=Jackie Walker, the ghost, says we must be free to speak|work= |location=Derry|publisher='']''|date=7 November 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="thetimes">{{cite news |last=Macaskill|first=Mark|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stage-set-for-labour-lynching-solo-show-ptvn7n6js|title=Far-Left Activist Jackie Walker Gets Standing Ovation for Antisemitic Play|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=16 July 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="newstatesman">{{cite news |last=Rampen|first=Julia|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/07/former-momentum-vice-chair-jackie-walker-plans-one-woman-edinburgh-fringe|title=Former Momentum vice-chair Jackie Walker plans one-woman Edinburgh Fringe show|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=17 July 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="thejc1">{{cite news |last=Sugarman|first=Daniel|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/jackie-walker-compares-her-labour-suspension-for-alleged-antisemitism-to-a-lynching-1.439987|title=Jackie Walker compares her Labour suspension for alleged antisemitism to a 'lynching'|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=14 June 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="thejc3">{{cite news |last=Levitt|first=Lee|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/jackie-walker-in-edinburgh-1.442461|title=Jackie Walker in Edinburgh: cheers and a standing ovation|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=6 August 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="algemeiner">{{cite news |last=Kerstein|first=Benjamin|url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/08/06/far-left-activist-jackie-walker-gets-standing-ovation-for-antisemitic-play/|title=Far-Left Activist Jackie Walker Gets Standing Ovation for Antisemitic Play|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=6 August 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="thejc2">{{cite news |last=Dysch|first=Marcus|url=https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/jackie-walker-claims-board-attempting-to-shut-down-show-1.442444|title=Jackie Walker claims Board of Deputies tried to shut down her Edinburgh show|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=4 August 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="timesofisrael2">{{cite news |last= |first= |url=http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/jackie-walker-accuses-board-trying-to-shut-down-fringe-show/|title=Jackie Walker accuses Jewish leaders of trying to shut down Fringe show|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=4 August 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="jpost">{{cite news |last= |first= |url=https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Controversial-Brit-says-Jewish-group-tried-to-shut-down-her-one-woman-show-501623|title=Controversial British activist says Jewish group tried to shut down her one-woman show|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=4 August 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="jta">{{cite news |last= |first= |url=https://www.jta.org/2017/08/04/news-opinion/world/controversial-british-activist-says-top-jewish-group-tried-to-shut-down-her-one-woman-show|title=Controversial British activist says top Jewish group tried to shut down her one-woman show|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=4 August 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref> | |||
| <ref name="haaretz">{{cite news |last=Peled|first=Daniella|url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/the-london-play-framing-jews-as-the-revamped-kkk-1.5455655|title=Why I Found a London Play Framing Jews as a KKK-style Lynch Mob Strangely Touching |work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=5 October 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref> | |||
| == Reception == | |||
| In '']'', ] wrote: "Jackie possesses a lovely singing voice and the honed acting skills of a veteran performer, plus the tragic story of her Jewish civil rights campaigner father and her black Jamaican mother, who was wrongly confined to a mental institution in the US, is worth a show in itself. Jackie is also very funny and frank about her own bolshy nature."<ref name="theguardian">{{cite news |last=Sayle|first=Alexei|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/nov/19/alexei-sayle-cultural-highlights|title=On my radar: Alexei Sayle’s cultural highlights|work= |location= |publisher='']''|date=19 November 2017|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref> Linguist and philosopher ] said: "I wholeheartedly support the right of anyone to criticise Israel without being branded antisemitic. That goes in particular for Jackie Walker".<ref name="thejc1"/> | |||
| Meanwhile, Lee Levitt of '']'' described one performance as "greeted by cheers and a standing ovation".<ref name="thejc3"/> In the '']'' Bernadette Hyland described it as "a story which Walker brings to life using song and readings" and "a shocking and sorrowful narrative as we follow her mother and siblings from the US to Jamaica and finally to Britain".<ref name="morningstaronline"/> | |||
| The '']'' had the following to say: "Billed as a story of black struggle, racism and Jeremy Corbyn, it mixes politics, humour, drama and song, The Lynching invites the audience-as-jury to hear Jackie’s mother defend her daughter."<ref name="camdennewjournal">{{cite news |last=Tomlin|first=Julie|url=http://www.camdennewjournal.com/article/julie-tomlins-theatre-news-the-lynching-assassins-passages-to-somewhere-sprint-festival|title=Julie Tomlin’s theatre news: The Lynching; Assassins; Passages to Somewhere; Sprint Festival|work= |location=London|publisher='']''|date=16 March 2018|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref> In '']'' Ben Fishwick wrote, "Ms Walker's show, ''The Lynching'', sees the audience act as a jury while her mother 'comes to life' defending her actions;"<ref name="portsmouth">{{cite news |last=Fishwick|first=Ben|url=https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/our-region/portsmouth/controversial-labour-activist-to-speak-in-portsmouth-1-8382004|title=Controversial Labour activist to speak in Portsmouth|work= |location=Portsmouth|publisher='']''|date=17 March 2018|accessdate=1 July 2018}}</ref>, while John Gulliver of '']'' "found it absorbing and revealing".<ref name="islingtontribune"/> | |||
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| *{{Official website|https://www.jackiewalker.org/}} | |||
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