Meeting Joe Strummer
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Infobox play
| name = Meeting Joe Strummer
| writer = Paul Hodson
| characters = Nick
Steve
| setting = Various
| premiere = 2006
| place = Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh
| orig_lang = English
| subject =
}}
Meeting Joe Strummer is a two-handed play by Paul Hodson.
Introduction
The play was an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First winner in 2006.{{Cite news |last=Adams |first=Owen |date=2007-11-14 |title=Raise a clenched fist for Joe Strummer |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/nov/14/joestrummer |access-date=2023-04-25 |issn=0261-3077}} The play originally starred actors Steve North and Nick Miles and was produced by Brighton Theatre Events at The Gilded Balloon. It subsequently toured the UK in autumn 2007 with Steve North and Huw Higginson taking the role of Nick, and in March and April 2010 with Steve North playing Steve and Jason Pitt playing Nick, produced by The Future is Unwritten Theatre Company and directed by Paul Hodson.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
Story
Nick and Steve, two men in their forties, meet again for the first time in years at a gig by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. As teenagers, they watched The Clash play the Rock Against Racism rally at Victoria Park in 1978, and lived through divorce, class warfare, acid house, the Thatcher years and soap stardom; however, they retain their passions for punk idealism, or "inner Strummer".{{Cite web |last=johnrobb |date=2012-11-01 |title=Meeting Joe Strummer: The play |url=https://louderthanwar.com/meeting-joe-strummer-the-play/ |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=Louder Than War |language=en-GB}} With a cast of only two, the play is performed with no props on a bare stage in front of a large banner of Strummer. There are rapid jump cuts in time and place between scenes.{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
External links
- [http://www.the-future-is-unwritten.co.uk/ The Future is Unwritten Theatre Company] set up by Paul Hodson and news about future and current tours of the play.
- [http://www.strummerville.com/ Strummerville], the charity set up by the friends and family of Joe Strummer in the year after his death. The charity seeks to reflect Joe's unique contribution to the music world by offering support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323131839/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/joe-strummer-611898.html Obituary] in The Independent by Chris Salewicz, later author of the biography [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007172125 Redemption Song]