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''Once there was a woman who lived in a fairly prosperous citadel. If the weather was fine, a rare and precious occurrence, she would go out and explore or she would do the shopping.'' In this fairy-tale like way, Cordelia Swann opens her parable about the other-worldly woman in the citadel. A symbol for the impoverished London at the end of the Thatcher era. The colourful impressions are quickly replaced by somber images, literally black as pitch and white as snow. The rowers who could earlier have represented freedom and relaxation, now suggest a terrifying forcing into line. The only colour in this black and white sequence is the bright red of spray-paint letters that scream 'Maggie's dream' in the middle of the destruction. 'The citadel' can be seen as a complaint against the indifference and arrogance of power, but it can also be experienced as a poetic and more universally valid allegory.
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André Nientied
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Quotes from: Virgil’s 'Aeneid',
Translation: W.F. Jackson,
Editing: Marek Budzynski, Darren Leathley,
Music: Henry Purcell ('Dido and Aenas'),
Voice: Maria Perry,
With: Asha Rao
Production: Marek Budzynski
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