PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
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Theatre review: Chilling echoes of bloodletting folly from millennia ago
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
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MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
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Battlefield Young Vic Theatre, London SE1 4/5
THE Mahabharata, written in Sanskrit and dating from around the 9th century BC, is the longest known epic poem in the world. Ten times longer than the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, it’s considered to be as important a part of the human heritage as the Bible, the Koran, the Greek tragedies or Shakespeare.
It narrates the battle of succession for the throne of Hastinapura, in an Indian kingdom of Kuru, between two groups of cousins the Kauravas and Pandavas, from which the latter emerged victorious.
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