Truth To Power Café – Conway Hall, London
Inspired by his father Mick Goldstein’s friendship with ‘The Hackney Gang’ (six childhood friends - Harold Pinter, Henry Woolf, Mick Goldstein, Jimmy Law, Ron Percival and Moishe Wernick), Jeremy Goldstein has collaborated with the gang’s only living member Henry Woolf to continue his journey of discovery. In the 1940’s and 50’s the gang would meet up and throw around ideas about literature and poetry amongst other things, trying to escape from the problems going on in the big wide world and inhabit their own creative world.
Previously, Goldstein Jr had worked on adapting his father’s work ‘Spider Love’ with Henry Woolf. After his father’s death in 2014, Goldstein found a play his father had written and decided to develop it. I had been written in answer to a book writ...