John Constable
His radio adaptations of John Wyndham’s novels The Kraken Wakes and Chocky were released on DVD in the BBC’s Classic Radio Sci-fi series. His solo shows include I Was An Alien Sex God and Raingods Become Me.
John Constable is a playwright, poet and performer, author of The Southwark Mysteries. Having read English at Cambridge, he travelled widely in the Far East, then toured Europe with the theatre groups Sheer Madness - in the prize-winning Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits - Samba Salad, and Kaktus, who produced his first play Space Monkey. John's many plays include Black Mas, Tulip Futures and the stage adaptations of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast and
Paul Theroux’s The Mosquito Coast.
The Southwark Mysteries began in 1996 as a cycle of ‘Vision Books’, mystical poems inspired by the spirit of a Winchester Goose allegedly buried in the Cross Bones Graveyard. By 1999, it had expanded to include a cycle of contemporary ‘Mystery Plays’ and ‘Glossolalia’ of local esoteric history and folk-lore. The Southwark Mysteries was first performed in full in Shakespeare's Globe and Southwark Cathedral on Easter Sunday (also St George’s Day and ‘Shakespeare’s Birthday’) 23rd April 2000.
A new production of The Southwark Mysteries, directed by Sarah Davey-Hull, was performed in Southwark Cathedral in April 2010 - with a professional core cast and crew and a hundred-strong community cast. There were also free performances of scenes from the play at the Scoop, More London.
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An Arts Council residency at Winchester Cathedral produced his prose-poem Time Out Of Mind, published online by ArchiTEXTS:
John gives talks on local history and esoteric lore and leads unusual guided walks. He is also widely known as John Crow, the south London shaman who channels The Goose, the spirit of a medieval prostitute allegedly buried in Cross Bones, the muse of The Southwark Mysteries. John Crow conducts the annual Halloween of Cross Bones and other rituals and workshops such as Shamanic Playhouse. John has performed his poetry and songs world-wide, as well as hosting events such as The Palace of Wisdom, the all-night poetry tent at the Glastonbury Festival.
goose & crow (spirit songs) is the new collection of songs by John Constable aka John Crow, performed with Nigel Hoyle and Katy Carr.
Also available: the southwark mysteries: shamanic poems, songs & raps.
As Artistic Director of SOUTHWARK MYSTERIES, John has conducted many walks, workshops and community drama performances.
He is also patron of REWRITE, a Southwark-based charity bringing together young people from different backgrounds to fight prejudice and injustice, particularly surrounding refuge and asylum, through the power of drama and creative writing.
In November 2010, John Constable was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of London South Bank University for services to the arts and community: "for his vision and imagination, for his deep commitment to our local area, for his work in reclaiming lost histories and, above all, for his belief in the transformative power of writing and drama..."
At Southwark's Civic Award Ceremony in May 2011, John received 'The Liberty of the Old Metropolitan Borough of Southwark'.
For his work at Crossbones, and his campaigning for the human rights of sex workers and other outsiders, John was awarded Campaigner of the Year at the 2011 Erotic Awards.
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