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The Lynching: What They Wouldn't Let Jackie Walker Tell You
Promotional poster
Written byJackie Walker
Date premiered4 August 2017 (2017-08-04)
Place premieredEdinburgh Festival Fringe
Original languageEnglish
Official site

The Lynching: What They Wouldn't Let Jackie Walker Tell You is a one-person play by British activist Jackie Walker.

Background

The Lynching is a one-woman 90-minute performance that is written a performed by Jackie Walker. The production focuses on the lives of Walker's activist parents, her own struggles with racism in the UK after she came to Britain in the late 1950s, and what happened to her after the Labour Party was enveloped in an antisemitism row.

It is described as "the one woman show about a real-life witchhunt: an attempt to destroy Jeremy Corbyn and an entire political movement." Walker described her treatment by the media as a "political lynching" designed "to smash the most radical political movement we have ever seen". Walker adds: "This show is my chance to tell my side of the story."

In August 2017, the Board of Deputies of British Jews wrote to Edinburgh Council requesting that the show is closed down at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Overview

In the show, Walker plays a number of characters including her late Jewish communist father arriving as a refugee in New York, around 1918, and her late Jamaican-born black civil rights activist mother. Imagining herself on trial for antisemitism, she adopted the character of her mother with a Jamaican accent to put the case for the defence.

Tour

The Lynching had its world premiere at Edinburgh Festival Fringe on 4 August 2017.

Reception

Alexei Sayle wrote in The Guardian, "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." Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky said: "I wholeheartedly support the right of anyone to criticise Israel without being branded antisemitic. That goes in particular for Jackie Walker".

Lee Levitt of The Jewish Chronicle said the show is an attempt "justify the views that have made her a controversial figure" and that the opening of her Edinburgh Fringe performance was "greeted by cheers and a standing ovation". In the Morning Star 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".

Camden New Journal said of the play, "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." Ben Fishwick of The News said, "Ms Walker's show, The Lynching, sees the audience act as a jury while her mother 'comes to life' defending her actions." John Gulliver of The Islington Tribune "found it absorbing and revealing".

See also

References

  1. ^ Hyland, Bernadette (25 January 2017). "Theatre Review Pointed polemic from suspended Labour activist". Morning Star. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ Levitt, Lee (6 August 2017). "Jackie Walker in Edinburgh: cheers and a standing ovation". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. Brown, Alan (3 January 2018). "Jackie Walker brings 'The Lynching' to Manchester". About Manchester. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ Gulliver, John (7 November 2017). "Jackie Walker, the ghost, says we must be free to speak". Derry: The Islington Tribune. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. Macaskill, Mark (16 July 2017). "Far-Left Activist Jackie Walker Gets Standing Ovation for Antisemitic Play". The Times. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  6. ^ Rampen, Julia (17 July 2017). "Former Momentum vice-chair Jackie Walker plans one-woman Edinburgh Fringe show". New Statesman. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ Sugarman, Daniel (14 June 2017). "Jackie Walker compares her Labour suspension for alleged antisemitism to a 'lynching'". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  8. ^ Dysch, Marcus (4 August 2017). "Jackie Walker claims Board of Deputies tried to shut down her Edinburgh show". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. "Jackie Walker accuses Jewish leaders of trying to shut down Fringe show". The Times of Israel. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  10. "Controversial British activist says Jewish group tried to shut down her one-woman show". The Jerusalem Post. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  11. "Controversial British activist says top Jewish group tried to shut down her one-woman show". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 4 August 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  12. Sayle, Alexei (19 November 2017). "On my radar: Alexei Sayle's cultural highlights". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. Tomlin, Julie (16 March 2018). "Julie Tomlin's theatre news: The Lynching; Assassins; Passages to Somewhere; Sprint Festival". London: Camden New Journal. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  14. Fishwick, Ben (17 March 2018). "Controversial Labour activist to speak in Portsmouth". Portsmouth: The News. Retrieved 1 July 2018. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

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