A pair of tickets to Gary Clarke Company: Wasteland

Closes 12 May 2023

A pair of tickets to Gary Clarke Company: Wasteland

In 1994 hundreds of coal miners hung up their pit boots as Grimethorpe Colliery was destroyed, along with the tight-knit working-class community that surrounded it. Wasteland, Gary Clarke’s sequel to Coal, looks at how two generations coped in this era of radical upheaval. As we see one generation grind to a halt, we follow the next into the 90s illegal rave scene, where derelict warehouses and abandoned work spaces became home for a new-found community of music and dance.

Bringing together Clarke’s vivid physical dance language performed by a company of exceptional dancers, a community cast of singers, brass musicians, archive film footage, a powerful rave soundtrack and unique art work by Jimmy Cauty (co-founder of The KLF), Wasteland dives head first into a gritty story of loss, hope, escapism and survival.

What's On are offering you the chance to win a pair of tickets to Gary Clarke Company: Wasteland at Birmingham Rep on Thursday 18 May at 7.30pm.

Competition closes Friday 12 May.

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In which decade is Wasteland set?

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