Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine review – turgid tribute to pioneering star
Barbican Hall, LondonJulia Bullock is magnetic in this discourse on Josephine Baker, but the 100-minute piece is slow-moving and lacking in intimacyJosephine Baker was many things: a civil rights activist; a spy for the French resistance; a woman who, born into poverty, became the best-paid stage star in Europe. But before she was any of these, she was an entertainer.…
Barbican Hall, LondonJulia Bullock is magnetic in this discourse on Josephine Baker, but the 100-minute piece is slow-moving and lacking in intimacyJosephine Baker was many things: a civil rights activist; a spy for the French resistance; a woman who, born into poverty, became the best-paid stage star in Europe. But before she was any of these, she was an entertainer.…
