TICKETS: Advance booking now closed. All stalls seats sold out.
Some unreserved balcony seats will be available on the door: £10 / Concessions £5. Doors open 7pm.
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- Mark Rylance, who has been receiving rave reviews on Broadway and in the West End and is playing a central part in the Olympics opening ceremony, will deliver a surprise recital;
- Brian Eno, artist, musician, record producer, will perform a new composition written especially for this event;
- TV and stage star Roger Lloyd Pack will read poems by the late radical poet Adrian Mitchell;
- Actor Kika Markham will perform a reading of Homebody/Kabul, originally written as a monologue for her by Tony Kushner;
- Prize winning Scottish author A.L. Kennedy will perform a reading from her latest novel, Day;
- Artists Peter Kennard and Cat Phillips, currently exhibiting at the Mosaic Rooms, will perform a reading set to their own images;.
- Alberto Portugheis, piano virtuoso, antiwar campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will perform two Chopin pieces;
- British folk legend Julie Felix will be singing her hits Tiger Eyes and Children of Abraham;
- The benefit begins with Roy Bailey and Tony Benn performing their sell out journey through the history of British radicalism, The Writing on the Wall.
