MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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More questions than answers in surrogacy diatribe
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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
PRESSING contemporary themes are addressed by an impressive, well-drilled cast in Chris Thompson’s Of Kith and Kin at the Bush.
Daniel and Oliver — played with emotional truth by James Lance and Joshua Silver — are a married couple expecting a baby. Their surrogate is close friend Priya (the glowing Chetna Pandya) who, it turns out, is using two eggs from an anonymous donor, with one fertilised in vitro by Daniel and one by Oliver.
Only one of the two embryos has been implanted but we don’t know which and it's unclear which of the two men is the biological father.
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