JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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Three Sisters, Vaudeville Theatre, London
All the dreams and disappointments of Chekhov's characters come memorably to life in a profoundly human production
Dreamers: Ekaterina Tarasova, Ksenia Rappoport and Irina Tychinina in Three Sisters
[Tristram Kenton]
The bard joins the Carnival Against Fascism, which summer fun sends him down Memory Lane
FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
“IN TWO or three hundred years, life will be unimaginably beautiful.”
It’s hard not to feel that Igor Chernevich’s bearded Vershinin has hit a nerve as a ripple of laughter through the audience. Far be it from us to disabuse him of his imagined utopia, a future bright with hot-air balloons, superhuman senses and beautifully tailored coats.
Humanity, he tells us, is destined for something astonishing. We just have to wait, and work. As for those of us alive today? “They’ll forget us. That is our fate.”
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