The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Scenes With Girls, Royal Court Theatre London
Wonderful meditation on the beauty and complexity of female friendship
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
PART love story, part existential examination of woman and desire, Miriam Battye’s play has Lou (Rebekah Murrell) and Tosh (Sex Education’s Tanya Reynolds, making her stage debut) as friends and housemates.
Debating love and sex, they attempt to interrogate the narratives that control female sexuality.
How do women unpick the stories they’ve been told about what they’re supposed to want? How to resist dichotomies like “frigid” and “whore,” they ask, as they scoff at ex-housemate Fran (given an excellent, understated performance by Letty Thomas), who’s in love and getting married.
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