CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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SUSAN DARLINGTON sees a uniquely comic dispatch from the front line in support of Palestine
[Steve Ullathorne]
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
Showtime From The Frontline
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds/Touring
AT FACE value, there isn’t much comedy potential in Mark Thomas’s Showtime From The Frontline.
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