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In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
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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
Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown
Rotunda Theatre, Brighton
TAYO ALUKO’s third one-man play tackles the life of George Coleridge-Taylor, Sierra Leonean diplomat and nephew of black Victorian superstar composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
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MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class
PETER MASON applauds a stage version of Le Carre’s novel that questions what ordinary people have to gain from high-level governmental spying
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