CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Edge of seat multi-generational power struggle
MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a powerful drama from Clean Break who specialise in work concerning women’s experience of the criminal justice system
SUPERB CHARACTERISATIONS: Ashna Rabheru (Leila) and Avita Jay (Aleena)
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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
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
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Holloway Theatre, Bush Theatre
CELEBRATING its 50th year, the Bush Theatre is excelling in producing quality dramas reflecting working-class life in the capital.
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