GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
An opportunistic misinterpretation of Brecht’s intentions
ANGUS REID challenges a narrative that has no interest in reality or politics and uses Brecht to side with the cultural right wing, the partisans of Greek ethnic superiority
Graves of the children of the Karabudak family murdered in the Maratha massacre described by the UN as a crime against humanity. The perpetrators were EOKA-B an ultra right-wing Greek Cypriot paramilitaries led by Georgios Grivas
[Seksen iki yuz kirk bes/Creative Commons]
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
Heinz-Uwe Haus and theatre making in Cyprus and Greece
Edited by Heinz-Uwe Haus and Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
Cambridge Scholars Publishing £68.99
HEINZ-UWE HAUS is the East German theatre director credited with kick-starting the National Theatre of Cyprus through a series of popular productions of Brecht and ancient Greek classics in the mid-70s.
It is a poisoned legacy.
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