Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Regular Spoken Word Night
Up and down the country there are weekly and monthly word events that mean great things to the people who
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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Spoken Word Performer
All over the world at any given moment there are spoken word performers wowing audiences. After the first round of
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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Spoken Word Show
The Best Spoken Word Show is another staple element of the Saboteur Awards and this year there have been so
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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Literary Festival
It’s the first year that the Saboteur Awards Festival has been able to include a literary festival category, and we’re
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Funkenteleky Verve Special (The Old Rep, Birmingham, 17 Feb 2019)
Reviewed by Jonah Corren ‘Funken.. what? Funkenwha? Is it a typo? Funfksjsdksrd?! Seriously? That’s not a word. Funke..Fun…ke? Funkenteleky!’ On
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UniSlam Grand Finals (The Old Rep, Birmingham, 3 Feb 2019)
Reviewed by Tyrone Lewis What an event UniSlam is! For those who don’t know, UniSlam is an annual team poetry
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Hit the Ode x UniSlam Party (The Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome, 1 Feb 2019)
reviewed by Hannah Ledlie Hit the Ode was launched a decade ago in The Victoria, a popular pub in Birmingham city
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Joygernaut (Andy Craven-Griffiths, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, 11 October 2018)
review by Sally Jack Joy – what is it good for? Most would likely agree the answer is ‘quite a
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Rear View (IOU Theatre, Festival of Imagineers, Coventry, 21 September 2018)
review by Stella Backhouse Alarm bells started ringing when Cecilia Knapp unexpectedly began to speak. “I am sixty-five years old,”
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I’d Be Lost Without It (Wet Picnic, Shop Front Festival, Coventry, 23 March 2018)
review by Stella Backhouse Before physical theatre company Wet Picnic began performing I’d be Lost Without It as part of
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