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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Cinema Preview: Framing a fightback
The anti-cuts film Big Society The Musical, set in Liverpool, is about to get its premiere. Its director LYNNE HARWOOD explains why and how it was made
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
In the the summer of 2010 David Cameron came to Liverpool to make his speech about the “big society,” as the city was to be one of the places where the idea would be launched.
At the First Take film production company where I work, as in many community and arts organisations throughout the city, we were bemused.
Isn’t this how we’d been living and working all these years? In the community? Making a difference? But then, if the government was supporting this ethos, surely it was a good thing? Surely it would mean more funding to enable the work we and others do to thrive?
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