MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Ridiculing courtship and the traditional battle of the sexes
SIMON PARSONS recommends an ingenious and wonderfully memorable upgrade of a classic
(L to R) Caroline Quentin as Mrs Malaprop, Peter Forbes as Anthony Absolute, Laurie Davidson as Jack Absolute and Natalie Simpson as Lydia Languish
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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
Jack Absolute Flies Again
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RICHARD BEAN and Oliver Chris’s brilliant reworking of Sheridan’s Rivals cleverly moves the location from 18th-century Bath to a 1940s country estate billeted by an RAF squadron.
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