GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War
Dynamic young theatre company commemorates the International Brigades
ON A JOURNEY: Wonder Fools
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
INCREASINGLY creating their own work, young writers, actors and directors are not afraid to tackle some hefty stories based on real life.
Bringing alive radical history and recalling the lives of ordinary people achieving extraordinary things is the mission of small companies such as Townsend Productions with their play Dare Devil Rides to Jarama and, pre-lockdown, acapella group The Young ’Uns were touring The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff.
Both pieces focus on a febrile time and complex events, when the Spanish civil war broke out in the summer of 1936.
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