MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Chafing against society’s upright and uptight mores
SUSAN DARLINGTON recommends an innovative production of Oscar Wilde’s classic
NO WEAK LINKS: (L to R from top) Daniel Jacob as Lady Bracknell, Adele James, Valentine Hanson, Anita Reynolds, (front row) Abiola Owokoniran, Joanne Henry and Phoebe Campbell
[Mark Senior] 
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 Importance of Being Earnest
Leeds Playhouse
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that The Importance of Being Earnest possesses some of the most famous aphorisms in the English language.
It’s therefore to director Denzel Westley-Sanderson’s credit that his production for English Touring Theatre manages to bring fresh life to Oscar Wilde’s “trivial comedy for serious people.”
Supported by a pop-up exhibition showing studio portraits of black Victorians — by London gallery Autograph — he uses the social satire to challenge stereotypes of the period.
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