CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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It Is Easy to Be Dead, Finborough Theatre
Moving drama on untimely death of WWI poet Charles Hamilton Sorley
CAPTIVATING: Alexander Knox
[C Scott Ryalnder]
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
OF SMALL comfort to theatre’s enduring existential crises during this unprecedented period is the ability to reach wider audiences online.
For a tiny hidden gem of a pub theatre such as the Finborough in West London, it is perhaps something they could look to utilise to take their productions beyond the 50, often sold-out, seats for their productions.
The story of first-world-war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley, the subject of It Is Easy to Be Dead, is certainly one a wider audience deserves to see.
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