MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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GISELA MAY, actor and singer, May 3, 1924-December 2, 2016
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
GISELA MAY, who died last month in Berlin at the age of 92, was the foremost interpreter of Bertholt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hans Eisler songs of her generation.
She became renowned far beyond her GDR home. May was a leading member of the permanent acting troupe at the Berliner Ensemble, Brecht’s theatre in Berlin and, when only in her mid-30s, stepped into the shoes of Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel to play Mother Courage to great acclaim.
She was discovered by composer and Brecht collaborator Eisler, who coached and encouraged her in her singing career, introducing her to Brecht’s song repertoire.
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