MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Gimme some truth
SYLVIA HIKINS applauds a musical show that emphasises the growing difference in songwriting between Lennon and McCartney
REVOLUTION VS LET IT BE: Tom Connor as Paul McCartney and Mark Newnham as John Lennon
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New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Come Together
The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
OPENED in 1826, Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre was forced to close in 1996, due to the dilapidated state of the building. The new theatre opened its doors in 2000, intent on being a writer’s theatre with plays and performances that challenge the artistic, social and political orthodoxy of the day, together with community-focused activities.
Many productions focus on new writing, in particular with a Liverpool theme, using a largely Liverpool cast and crew.
It’s obvious that at some point drama and music about Liverpool’s Fab Four would be included. The show Come Together explores the Lennon and McCartney partnership from their first meeting as teenagers to the break-up of the Beatles 13 years later – everything from the Quarrymen all the way through to Abbey Road.
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