MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Collateral damage in the home front of the 'war on terror'
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
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Theatre N16, London
IN RECOGNITION of the Armistice and all that it means, Theatre N16 are devoting the whole of November to Aftershock, a “military season” of three new plays that explore the meaning and nature of war.
The first, Martin McNamara’s powerfully realistic drama IED, is set in 2008 at the height of the Afghanistan conflict, where Captain Agnes Bennett, an army notification officer, has the routine administrative job of reporting deaths in the field to the nearest and dearest of the fallen.
It’s a formidable task.
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