MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
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WILL STONE is transfixed by a brilliant adaptation of a best-selling Polish eco-thriller
INDOMITABLE: Kathryn Hunter as Janina Duszejko
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends three new books that explore the human relationship with nature
Doomed adolescents, when the missing person is you, classic whodunnit, and an anti-capitalist eco-thriller
WILL STONE takes a ticket to indie disco heaven, but misses the rarely performed tunes
Reviews of new releases by Jens Lekman, Big Thief, and Christian McBride Big Band
TOM PIERSCIONEK recommends a remarkable series of interviews with those few and brave Israeli citizens who refuse to do military service
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead
Barbican Theatre, London
THE highly anticipated new production by renowned theatre group Complicite had a rather unfortunate false start when its press night was cancelled at the eleventh hour after lead actor Kathryn Hunter came down with a sudden illness.
Since then, Amanda Hadingue has dauntlessly stepped into what proves to be quite the Herculean role for most of the short two-week run at the Barbican... but not tonight.
The diminutive grey-haired Hunter ambles out, in character, rasping and coughing into a central mic: “Just a touch of Covid!” she jests, although the irony isn’t lost.
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