Glory, 1983- ‘It’s some time before you realise that the puppeteer in the darkness is Finn-Kelcey herself.’ Photograph- Courtesy the Estate of Rose Finn-Kelcey - from our story 'Remembering Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014)'

Rose Finn-Kelcey

Glory was performed at the Serpentine Galley in 1983... A cast of 100 cardboard cut-outs gradually fills the table-top stage. Political leaders such as Lenin, Churchill and Thatcher, whose Falklands War inspired the piece, are joined by soldiers, cowboys and indians, a bucking bronco, hangman’s nooses and a vast array of weaponry from knives, scimitars, axes, maces and bows and arrows, to canons, hand grenades, submachine guns, missiles and atom bombs." - The ArtsDesk

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