MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Ambitious political satire
GORDON PARSONS applauds one of those few brave plays to confront the politics of our world head on
MESSING WITH MEDIA: David Edgar's The New Real
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
The New Real
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
SINCE his ground-breaking Destiny in 1976, exploring the complexities underlying the BNP surface of British fascism, there is an air of excited expectancy when David Edgar presents another of his epic dramatic analyses of the political scene.
Just as in his latest book, The Populist Right, examining the current explosion of right-wing movements throughout Europe, The New Real engages with the shift in the political tectonic plates throughout the continent.
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