MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Dem Times, Omnibus Theatre Clapham
Bitter-sweet tale of a British-born troublemaker’s re-education in Ghana
THOROUGHLY ENGAGING: David Omordia
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
THE award-winning Omnibus Theatre in London, under the dynamic artistic direction of Marie McCarthy, describes itself as “a home of storytelling — a small place to encounter big ideas.”
And in the current climate of shock and stillness, that need for storytelling could never be more urgent.
One such story is that of Samuel Adjei in Jacob Roberts-Mensah and Rhys Reed-Johnson’s Dem Times, directed by Poppy Clifford, bow available on a podcast.
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