Into the Melting Pot
The Telling
Anvil Arts – The Haymarket, Basingstoke. 6 February 2024

Into the Melting Pot is described as a “concert-play”. It involved an actor (Clara Perez) presenting the story (written by Clare Norburn) of a Jewish woman (Blanca) living in Spain in 1492 on the eve of the expulsion of the Jews. Bianca’s story is interspersed with music, performed by The Telling, which combined traditional Sephardic, Andalusian and Arabic songs with music from manuscripts from a couple of centuries earlier. It made for a fascinating evening combining history and music.

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