MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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The ghost of labour movement activist Mary Quaile haunts a fast-food restaurant in a new play bridging the gap between past and present, says BERNADETTE HYLAND
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
STATUES are costly and, by their very nature, immobile. Yet they’ve become popular with some campaigners who believe they’re the way to celebrate women activists of the past.
There are plans to erect statues of Emmeline and Sylvia Pankhurst and Mary Wollstonecraft in Manchester and London but some activists — rather than heritagists — think that, given the harshness of the lives of women in Britain now, there are other ways to acknowledge the lives of women campaigners.
One is to promote their history and draw the links with young women activists on the front line of fighting the same battles over pay and conditions in the fast-food industry.
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