GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Sexual misconduct and questions about identity examined
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
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Trafalgar Studios
ANNA ZIEGLER’S topical two-hander, employing a series of interwoven monologues, revolves around Princeton freshmen students and an accusation of rape brought before a university panel.
Yasmin Page’s insecure yet effervescent Jewish undergraduate, Amber, with a brief unsatisfactory sexual history, tries to overcome her awkwardness and fit in during the drink-fuelled weeks of the fresher’s party world.
Simon Manyonda’s sexually confident Tom, a black student from a low-achieving family, is also trying to come to terms with his strange, new reality in the extended, alcoholic induction to college life.
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