WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Dance
Revealing insights into world of a teenager on the margins
HEART-WARMING: Shonagh Marie as Kemi
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
THE TITLE of this simple piece of storytelling by Matthew Morrison, performed by two socially distanced actors online, may at first seem misleading.
For this is not a visual display of choreography and movement but, instead, an intimate heart-to-heart with two beautifully drawn characters, Kemi and her dad Richard.
Kemi, who attends a London secondary school, inhabits a place of staggering loneliness, coloured only by the terrible bullying power of social media and the brutal herd mentality of schoolgirl enemies.
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