‘Myth is a language’, says Roland Barthes in his famous Mythologies. It is the language of John Redmond’s The Alexandra Sequence, which places contemporary urban life alongside the mummers’ play, an old form of British folk-theatre historically staged in the streets and door-to-door (Wales has its own, older, tradition, in the Mari Lwyd). The mummers’ […]
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