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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Playful penance in the penal colony
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MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
Our Country’s Good at the National Theatre, London SE1
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THE PRACTICE of transportation — enforced exile — to Australia for the most insignificant misdemeanour was one which blighted the British legal system until 1868, by which time 164,000 had been sent to penal colonies, among them the Tolpuddle Martyrs in 1830.
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