MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Free for All - extract from a new verse play by Richard O'Brien
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Free for All
An extract from a new verse play by Richard O'Brien
Kerry, a lifelong union rep, has been persuaded by her daughter Martha to attend an open evening for a new free school about to open in her area. Attempting to address some of her concerns, the school's headmaster has just compared his independent, 'Do-It-Yourself' approach to education to Kerry's own grass-roots activism.
KERRY
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