MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Dismantle Yourself by Sloth Racket
Inventive northern souls embrace free spirit of improvisation
HOLDING ON TO OPTIMISM: Sloth Racket
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
INSTIGATOR of that quintet of surprising and ever-inventive sounds Sloth Racket, is baritone saxophonist Cath Roberts.
As a teenager she was into rock music, so her musical starting points weren’t jazz.
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