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Folk, Hampstead Downstairs review - thoughtful play about folklorist Cecil Sharp by Helen Hawkins

Nell Leyshon's play-with-music asks questions of a legacy Cecil Sharp, heritage hero or imperialist appropriator? If you attended school in the first half of the 19th century, you would have sung from his collections of English folk songs, and probably gritted your teeth and performed the country dances he recorded, too.

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:18AM on January 6, 2022

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