WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Best of 2019: Theatre
FIVE STAR SHOW: Sweat
[Johan Persson] 
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
PLAYING all nine characters in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the tiny Tara Theatre in London, Kudzanayi Chiwawa and Ayesha Casely-Hayford took such liberties with its content and structure that one might have expected the whole venture to fall apart.
Yet the play was so lovingly bashed about that it came through the ordeal with flying colours, as did the pair themselves.
Operating within a minimalist set and dressed only in white T-shirts and black trousers, Chiwawa and Casely-Hayford offered up a deliberately unruly interpretation of Wilde’s farcical goings on, blurring time, space and boundaries in a way that added an extra dimension to the humour.
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