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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TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
Hand to God
Vaudeville Theatre,London W2
3/5
Robert Askins’s Tony award-winning play is set in small-town Texas, where recently-widowed Margery has been asked by the local pastor to run the church’s puppet club.
There are only three people in it — her son Jason and teenagers Jessica and Timothy and, when Jason realises that his puppet Tyrone is beginning to take him over, he rips him in two.
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