MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
Love And Other Acts Of Violence
Donmar Warehouse
A YOUNG man is overzealously shouting at a woman over the noise of a house party about the scandal of inflated university vice-chancellor pay while other staff struggle on low incomes.
It’s a very current conversation, a nod to the University College Union’s (UCU) ongoing campaign, and one of the only clues that this new play by Cordelia Lynn, finely directed by Elayce Ismail, is set in modern-era Britain.
As an opening scene to an otherwise extremely dark story, it’s hilarious in its familiarity of the social awkwardness that comes with trying to speak, least of all flirt, with anyone where the music is too loud.
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