MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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No Future
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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
NO FUTURE is the brainchild of Adam Welsh, who produces and performs as himself in this livestreamed performance from Camden People’s Theatre in London.
The meaning of the work’s startlingly miserabilist title reveals itself only gradually as a brave journey into the mind of one man and, through him, into the workings of the human brain itself.
At one point TS Eliot is quoted: “Time past and time future … what might have been and what has been … point to one end, which is always present” and it’s a clue to the play’s meaning.
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