rla on February 11th, 2015

Lamplight 105: Outcasts

No one wants a fellow with a social disease.

We look at Outcasts, all invited to Walt Whitman’s “meal pleasantly set”: “I will not have a single person slighted or left away.” There’s Officer Krupke for comic relief before a disturbing exerpt from Asena, a one-woman play about sex-trafficking, and another Coleman Barks story from Rumi, ending with Leonard Cohen being a disgraceful outcast whom we must not pass by. You’re invited to attend.

Asena, Round Church, Cambridge, 19 February, 7.30