Acknowledgement of Country

Overview

Jeremy Goldstein’s Truth to Power Café is a profound theatrical reflection on loss, hope and resistance.

This internationally acclaimed performance and digital theatre event is told through memoir, poetry, image, music and film. It is a unique live and online meditation on time, place and community as participants from Kaurna, Dharug, Bunurong and Wurundjeri lands speak passionately from the truth of their lived experience, in response to the question: ‘Who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?’

Truth to Power Café is inspired by the political and philosophical beliefs of Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter and his Hackney Gang. For sixty years the Gang maintained their belief in speaking truth to power and remained firmly on the side of the occupied and the disempowered and their allies.

“Heartfelt, passionate, and lovably odd” Michael Billington

“Theatre at its simplest and most direct” Lyn Gardner

“A truly global show that knows no borders…Truth to Power Café is part theatrical-performance, part memoir, part impassioned activism” Time Out

About the artist

London Artists Projects (LAP) was founded by Jeremy Goldstein in 2002 with a mission to speak truth to power to audiences hungry for live and authentic moments of joy, beauty and meaning. LAP champions under-represented voices and new forms of artistic and political expression through the co-creation of genre-busting interdisciplinary theatre with artists and participants worldwide. LAP projects have won six major theatre awards including Evening Standard, Scotsman Fringe First, BBC Audio Drama, h.Club and London Cabaret.

“Evocative theatrical wonderland.” Guardian

“Compelling and cathartic, dignified and passionate…the essence of live performance” The Queer Review