The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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A seafaring horror... without the sea
The central conceit is brilliant but the ideas deserve more space, writes KATHERINE M GRAHAM
SEEDS OF DISTRUST: Caleb O’Brien as Stranger and Jack Flammiger as Garson
[King’s Head Theatre]
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
The Drought
King’s Head Theatre
THE isolated Victorian seafaring vessel is a rich seam that the horror genre has often mined for material, as recent TV series such as The Terror or The North Water can attest.
Nina Atesh’s The Drought, currently at the King’s Head Theatre, takes the same raw material and then, rather brilliantly, takes away the antagonist we expect — the sea.
When we first meet the Captain (Andrew Callaghan) and Garson (Jack Flammiger) they are the only two men still left on a Royal Navy vessel stranded in the middle of an ocean that has inexplicably disappeared.
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