David Walter Hall

Brutal, poetic and ultimately devastating, Cross Road Blues recreates one of the most compelling myths in American music: Robert Johnson’s alleged pact with the devil, hatched out at a crossroads one dark Mississippi midnight.

First performed as a student two-hander in 2003, and later receiving five-star reviews and sell out crowds at the Edinburgh fringe in 2005, the play has now been reinvented on an operatic scale. A new version, with the addition of an expansive choral score, performed by a twenty-voice choir accompanied by a six-piece acoustic blues ensemble was first performed at the Hackney Empire on 16th July 2009.

Watch this space to find out where you can see it next.