Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Tayo Aluko. Music performed by Martin Robinson.
The 20th Century is littered with the notion of celebrity, arguably even more so in the image conscious/obsessed world of the 21st Century. As time moves on though, that celebrity becomes more about wanting to be known rather than what for and more importantly what you are willing to take a stand for and willing to sacrifice over. How many people, how many modern day celebrities would stand firm in the eye of the American public and be resolute against the evil that the McCarthy Hearings, America’s political low point at the time, were setting out to destroy for example? For a handful of men and women, notably Arthur Miller and his dramatic response in the exceptional The Crucible and Paul Robeson, a man ahead of his time but a true trailblazer in the fight for equality in the lives of Black Americans, stand out.