The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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The play is a powerful reminder of the arrogance, class hatred and professional incompetence that lead to tragedy of inimaginable scale, writes MARY CONWAY
EXCELLENT: (L to R) Thomas Wheatley, Ron Cook and Clair Lams
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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
Value Engineering
Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry
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THEATRE can serve many purposes but none so potent as when it gives public air time to the hearts and minds of people who live lives of quiet desperation.
In Value Engineering — an edited enactment of the Grenfell fire inquiry — we are called upon briefly to inhabit the souls not only of the 72 people who died or of the survivors or of the bereaved, but of all those who live at the harsh end of a careless, foolish and flawed society in which individuals at all levels shirk responsibility and play fast and loose with the welfare of others.
It’s a serious indictment of all we pretend to be.
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