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When the Crows Visit, The Kiln London
Play on gang rape in India sets a misdirected agenda
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
WRITTEN by the award-winning Indian-born playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar, When the Crows Visit is set in India with a theme that takes us straight to the underbelly of that subcontinent’s culture.
The play draws on two main sources — the infamous gang-rape and mutilation of a girl in Delhi in 2012 and the long-held adage that “the sins of the father are visited upon the son” as explored to thrilling effect by Ibsen in his play Ghosts. Ibsen, though, this isn’t.
What is striking about the play is the sense it gives of a terrible, lost society. Not only are the men unexceptionally gross, uncaring and brutal to women but the women, or rather the mothers, collude in the abuse and enable it to continue.
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