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Jack Birkett obituary by David Haughton

Vibrant dancer, singer and actor " a leading light of the Lindsay Kemp Company and striking presence in films by Derek JarmanJack Birkett, who has died aged 75, was a performer with the Lindsay Kemp Company, whose stylised theatrical language permitted him to blend ferocity with camp comedy, tragedy with menace, and lyricism with grotesqueness. The company's emotionally intense fusion of dance, theatre, mime and spec…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AM on May 28, 2010

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