About the Book: Let Them Eat Chaos
Let Them Eat Chaos, Kate Tempests new long poem written for live performance and
heard on the album release of the same name, is both a powerful sermon and a
moving play for voices. Seven neighbours inhabit the same London street, but are
all unknown to each other. The clock freezes in the small hours, and, one by
one, we see directly into their lives: lives that are damaged, disenfranchised,
lonely, broken, addicted, and all, apparently, without hope. Then a great storm
breaks over London, and brings them out into the night to face each other - and
their last