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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Cuba's cinema architecture
Cuba cinemas: Megano and Yara, Havana
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
BEFORE the revolution, there were 511 cinemas in Cuba, with 130-plus in greater Havana alone — more than Paris or New York at that time — and, after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship, that number increased to more than 600 all over the country.
They delivered a visual spectacle which, like anywhere, was a shared experience. It was a world away from today’s streaming culture but times have changed on the island.
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