GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
The fading memory of spitfires and Vera Lynn
PETER MASON recommends a tentative metaphor of a nation in search of a meaningful destiny beyond the remembrance of conflict
(L to R) Hamish Macdougall as fiance, Nathaniel Christian as Lewis and Rachel-Leah Hosker as Becky
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
The Winston Machine
New Diorama Theatre, London
A ONE-ACT play commissioned from the Kandinsky theatre company, The Winston Machine examines how WWII is, perhaps, ceasing to be a key reference point for many British people.
The inference from events that unfold on stage is that we ought to view this as a good thing: a liberating experience that will release us from some of the knots we’ve tied ourselves in over the past 75 years.
Without deprecating the conflict, or the people who took part in it, The Winston Machine suggests that it’s time to move on, and that we’d all benefit from a bit more forward thinking.
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