It’s No Go On The Merrygoround
A Poetry Show About Crisis
Devised by Michael Kustow
Production
Information
The Young Vic, London, 7th
April 1968
Cast
Diana Rigg T P McKenna Michael Pennington
Adrian Henri Alan Sillitoe George Macbeth
Music by 10: Stuart Gordon & Phil Harrison
Director Michael Kustow
“ ‘It’s No Go On The
Underground’ is a dramatic sequence of poems about the sense of crisis which
many people feel today. It brings together poetry from England, Ireland,
Central Europe, America and the Middle East, documentary episodes drawn from
the recent news, and a collection of original songs.
“One of its aims is to
bring poetry into sharp confrontation with today’s headlines. Another is to
show that no crisis, however extreme it feels, is unprecedented.
“By combining actors and
poets reading their own work, it also provides an unusual experience in the
performance of poetry. It comes to the Young Vic for one Sunday night
performance after a much admired premiere at last month’s Lancaster Arts
Festival.”