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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Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight is a brilliant and disturbing exploration of mental domestic cruelty, says PETER FROST
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
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
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
Gaslight
Royal and Derngate, Northampton
4/5
PATRICK Hamilton was probably the best known British communist playwright and novelist of his generation.
He never denied his Marxist politics and he was always known as a communist playwright although he never officially declared or denied his Communist Party membership.
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