MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Faith, Hope and Charity National Theatre London
Understated yet devastating account of life on the margins in the age of austerity
In tune with the times: Faith, Hope and Charity
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
“I DON’T want theatre to be comfortable,” writer and director Alexander Zeldin told the Morning Star last week. “I don’t want it to be consensual.”
And when the lights go up on his latest play Faith, Hope and Charity, it’s with a stark, fluorescent flicker that transforms the National’s Dorfman theatre into a run-down community centre and foodbank on the brink of closure.
At its helm is Hazel — played by the brilliant Cecilia Noble — whose weekly patchwork meals struggle to fill the gaps left by a crumbling welfare state in the age of austerity.
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