{"id":9026,"date":"2018-04-05T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T11:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=9026"},"modified":"2018-04-24T19:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:30:02","slug":"performance-space-prose-poetry-from-mod-to-marxist-in-1968","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/performance-space-prose-poetry-from-mod-to-marxist-in-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Space: May 1968: From a Mod to a Marxist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9026 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-2_or_3_across_crop'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/karl-marx.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/karl-marx-270x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-2_or_3_across_crop size-2_or_3_across_crop\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mods.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"270\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Mods-270x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-2_or_3_across_crop size-2_or_3_across_crop\" alt=\"Karl Marx\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Born in 1951, Radical Stroud\u2019s Stuart Butler recounts how the events of May &#8217;68 turned him from a mod into a Marxist.\u00a0 Stuart shares his personal journey during the year that rocked the world through prose-poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Prologue:<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen years\u2019 old in the spring of 1968: bored with school; bored with A levels; why on earth did I stay on? Skint.<\/p>\n<p>Just got the sack from a Saturday job. No fags, no new records, no new clothes, no job, no money. Swindon have just had another rubbish season and now there\u2019s just a long close season ahead with boring, boring, bloody cricket and athletics and tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Cliff Richard number one with boring, bloody \u2018Congratulations\u2019 and now Louis bloody Armstrong with \u2018What a Wonderful World\u2019 and \u2018Cabaret\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Christ alive.<\/p>\n<p>The hollows of these spring afternoons are so long and deep \u2013 it\u2019s that bad and boring that I\u2019ll have to watch the news on the telly.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Blimey! What\u2019s all this?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Mum, can I have a cup of tea? I\u2019m watching the news.<\/p>\n<p>Join Stuart Butler for a modern day Pilgrim\u2019s Progress, on a journey from a teenage Slough Despond to the Celestial City. Join him on his confiding, confessional journey from a Mod to a Marxist, for \u2018Bliss it was that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Forget the 1967 Summer of Love. Celebrate the 1968 Spring of Politics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">More alliterative madeleine moments to follow a mod becoming a Marxist: a look at how May &#8217;68 has been memorialized \u2013 from slogans on walls to Nicholas Sarkozy to a train driver\u2019s billy can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">In addition, a counter-factual rumination \u2026 a What If\u00a0 \u2026What if Paris 1968 had been successful \u2026 How different would history have been?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1951, Radical Stroud\u2019s Stuart Butler recounts how the events of May &#8217;68 turned him from a mod into a Marxist.\u00a0 Stuart shares his personal journey during the year that rocked the world through prose-poetry. 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