MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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Under Three Moons, Carriageworks Theatre Leeds/Touring
Effectively understated exploration of male friendship
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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
UNDER Three Moons manages to sum up half a lifetime in just three names: Mikey, Mike and Michael.
Mikey, introduced as a loud-mouthed and fidgety teenager on a school trip to France, sits in the cold with the jittery Paul, with his attempts to apologise for a night-time prank hampered by stale notions of masculinity.
Then he becomes Mike, hiding out in his uncle’s surf shack with Paul in Pembrokeshire. Their roles reversed, he’s hesitantly asking for relationship advice while the previously sober Paul is sliding into substance abuse.
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