Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempest's new long poem written for live
performance and heard on the album release of the same name, is both a
powerful sermon and a moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit
the same London street, but are all unknown to each other. The clock
freezes in the small hours, and, one by one, we see directly into their
lives: lives that are damaged, disenfranchised, lonely, broken,
addicted, and all, apparently, without hope.
Then a great storm
breaks over London, and brings them out into the night to face each
other - and their last chance to connect. Tempest argues that our
alienation from one another has bred a terrible indifference to our own
fate, but she counters this with a plea to challenge the forces of greed
which have conspired to divide us, and mend the broken home of our own
planet while we still have time. Let Them Eat Chaos is a cri de coeur
and a call to action, and, both on the page and in Tempest's electric
performance, one of the most powerful poetic statements of the year.
Let Them Eat Chaos - Kate Tempest
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