STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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HANNAH KHALIL talks to Joe Gill about her new play on the fraught history of Western interventions in Iraq
Groundbreaking: A Museum in Baghdad in rehearsal
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TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
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MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
ON THE first day of rehearsals for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of A Museum in Baghdad, writer Hannah Khalil looked around the studio at the big cast.
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All but two were, like herself, of Arab descent.
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