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Can I Help You? Omnibus Theatre London
Sensitive exploration of triggers for mental breakdown
LIGHT RELIEF: Susan Aderin and Gabriel Vick in Can I Help You?
[Bridie O’Sullivan]
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
THIS is a little gem of a play, in which a suicidal policeman, fresh from a fatal stabbing of yet another East End youngster, is forced into re-evaluating his life when approached by a mentally troubled and mistreated Ghanaian woman.
Set one night on the notorious suicide spot Beachy Head, the action catapults between formative moments from their pasts and their quirky interaction as an unusual relationship develops that will carry them through the hours of darkness.
As the bloodied copper who has seen too much and still carries the weight of a tragic childhood experience, Gabriel Vick gives an intense performance.
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