PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
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‘Everybody has got a story to tell’
Writer and director KEITH SAHA tells Len Phelan what guides the work of the hard-hitting 20 Storeys High theatre company
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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
Like many of our more radical arts practitioners, man of many talents Keith Saha first cut his teeth at the Everyman Youth Theatre in Liverpool some 25 years ago.
“It opened up a whole new world,” he says. “Anybody could join and there was just a whole different mix of people and it felt that we could do anything. It was also political.”
After college and “a bit of time signing on and doing other different stuff,” he got an acting job with the socialist Red Ladder theatre company, touring Asian communities in West Yorkshire.
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