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
Latest editorial
Ambitious political satire
GORDON PARSONS applauds one of those few brave plays to confront the politics of our world head on
MESSING WITH MEDIA: David Edgar's The New Real
[Ikin Yum]
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
The New Real
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
SINCE his ground-breaking Destiny in 1976, exploring the complexities underlying the BNP surface of British fascism, there is an air of excited expectancy when David Edgar presents another of his epic dramatic analyses of the political scene.
Just as in his latest book, The Populist Right, examining the current explosion of right-wing movements throughout Europe, The New Real engages with the shift in the political tectonic plates throughout the continent.
Similar stories
GORDON PARSONS salutes the apt return of Brecht’s vaudevillian cartoon drama that retains the vitality of the boxing or the circus ring
GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
GORDON PARSONS is disappointed by an unsubtle production of this comedy of upper middle class infidelity