Mercy and Grand: The Tom Waits Project – review

Shoreditch Church, LondonThis was essentially a cabaret devised by composer Gavin Bryars that celebrates and contextualises the songs of Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan. Originally produced in tandem with Opera North, it was first seen in Leeds in 2007, and has resurfaced several times before reaching this year's Spitalfields Music Winter Festival.Bryars and Waits are apparently long-time fans of each other's work: Waits describes Bryars as giving his songs "an elegant night on the town...

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