Laurie Anderson: Dirtday! – review

Royal Festival Hall, London"The main goal is to end life with a certain amount of precision ... and the least amount of mess," notes Laurie Anderson midway through Dirtday! She's referring to the US healthcare system, it's a line – a clean, surgical insertion of the blade – that could equally apply to her own approach tonight. The work's title feels somewhat misleading: though it is dominated by monologues in which Anderson roots around in the soil of religion, politics and the human condi...

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