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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
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Cronivision
Bait Theatre
ALL life, it seems, is on Zoom right now, and it’s not surprising that theatre companies, digital artists and egomaniacs generally are plundering it for platform opportunities.
In the resulting plethora of goodies and not-so-goodies, Bait Theatre are making their mark with a lockdown-busting, feel-good, weirdly intelligent and crazy collage of imagery for a maximum audience of 21 people at any one time.
The company’s two instigators, all-round creatives and performers are Michelle Madsen and Lizzy Shakespeare. With a formidable combined pedigree in artistic venture, they set out to deliver what they describe as an experiment in theatre, poetry and interactive performance which “takes the audience down a virtual rabbit hole into a dream space where meaning can be found in nonsense.”
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