Luka and I had been working on Odysseus since 2016, but it became clear that our massive orchestral-choral-Hip-Hop-cinematic theatrical work wasn’t going to premiere through the pandemic, so we got to work remotely, through the lockdowns, on three orchestrated video-poems, written and performed by Luka, with music by me. There’s a strong theme of Social Justice going through them.
Two of these, including A Letter To My Daughter, were commissioned by the Institute of non-violence. Trigger warning: this work deals with issues of violence against women.
James Humberstone 