New releases from Shearwater, Florry, and Navy Blue
Haunting herstory of women on front line of WWI
Not such quiet girls: Gillene Butterfield as Pat and Laura Prior as Harry
[Justin Slee]
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Not Such Quiet Girls
Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
BLOODIED fur coats, faulty truck engines and flea-ridden mattresses in sodden khaki tents are the gritty physical context of this moving new opera about four young women ambulance drivers of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in WW1.
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