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THE HOUSING LARK

A Calypso Opera

By Sam Selvon

Adapted by Ayesha Antoine-Brown

“Is no use dreaming Is no use dreaming, thinking Lying on your backside musing Of the green greener grass”

Brixton, 1965. Three women – Jean, Matilda and Teena - stand on a street corner and talk about the dreams of the men they know.

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“What would take we ten months to save on our own, we could do in six and own our own home.”

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Ayesha Antoine Brown’s adaptation will see Selvon’s comic masterpiece reimagined as a calypso opera from the perspective of the women in Battersby’s life, against an original Calypso score.

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