Joe Strummer Takes A Walk
By Juan Alberto Salvatierra
Translated by L. Finch - Directed by Jorge de Juan
Cervantes Theatre
Sep - Oct 2021
“… he’s still buried here. I can hear his cries…”
In 1985, Joe Strummer was in Granada and decided, together with Jesús Arias, with a pick and a shovel, to unearth the corpse of Federico García Lorca. The punk star unearthing García Lorca… Joe Strummer takes a walk is the result of that emotion and that need to know a fantastic story.
This daring and intimate new play shows us an icon in search of something more than flesh, as he digs through the night in the fields of Spain. With each strike of the ground the punk rock warlord steps further into a surreal world, exploring his heroes life and demise, as well as his own faltering success. What is he truly looking for?
“Performed to perfection by Bradley, who manages to convey the astonishing energy of Strummer.”
“Bradley gives us a Strummer who is angry, proud, contemplative, didactic, fragile, forthright and, perhaps more than anything for a warlord, human. At times, Bradley speaks like a teenager, at times like a superstar, at times like a broken old man…
… a performer performing a performer, without ever toppling into caricature.”