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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The Rubenstein Kiss, Southwark Playhouse, London
Thought-provoking drama on the Rosenbergs, executed in 1953 as ‘Soviet spies’ in the US
Fatal Attraction: Ruby Bentall (Esther Rubenstein) and Henry Proffit (Jakob Rubenstein)
[Scott Rylander]
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
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
JAMES PHILLIPS’S play is the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who perished on the electric chair for allegedly passing atomic warfare secrets to the Soviet Union.
While the names have been changed and there is some dramatic licence, essentially it’s the authentic history.
The central focus is the American-Jewish couple Esther and Jakob Rubenstein, devoted soulmates with a passion for communism, while Esther’s brother David and his soon-to-be-wife Rachel also shape the drama.
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