Annie Clark flies around the stage with a woozy grace, like a frustrated ballerina gone rogue
‘I love that Base isn’t centred around alcohol. That’s a huge thing. You don’t have to spend money to be here’
Wexford Festival Opera 2024: ‘The singers are glad they don’t have to talk much. And the actors are delighted they don’t have to sing’ Clark’s work has often been about playing off tensions, but it is also about sitting in the ebb and flow of things, acknowledging that nothing quite stays the same, with songs that sometimes stomp around in heavy weather ending up resembling a tattered folk song – they are always surprising journeys.
Romance is the lifeblood of this show, but it is a hard-wrought, wrung-out, fought-for kind of lifeblood, the kind that is not only interested in speaking to the living, but the dead, and a recognition that we all live among ghosts. As Clark comes back for the encore, the salty sweetness that is Somebody Like Me, she asks “does it make you an angel or some kind of freak to believe enough in somebody like me?”, the answer is clear: both.St Vincent performing at the 3Olympia Theatre.
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