DENNIS BROE enjoys the political edge of a series that unmasks British imperialism, resonates with the present and has been buried by Disney
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Mamet’s funny kind of sales pitch
LYNNE WALSH sees a top-drawer cast triumph in the US dramatist’s scabrous depiction of a desperate salesman on the make
STEVE JOHNSON speaks to DJ and singer/songwriter Mark Radcliffe
JAMES WALSH takes advantage of an evening of comedy snippets to pick out which clowns will make it in Edinburgh
MAYER WAKEFIELD is swept up by the tale of the south London venue where music forged alliances across race, class and identity
MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
WHO’D have imagined that an evening in the company of a set of alpha males could be so joyous?
The Playhouse revival of David Mamet’s barnstormer Glengarry Glen Ross is a belter.
From curtain up, with Stanley Townsend’s defiant Shelly Levene, we’re in safe hands in this dissection of desperate salesmen schmoozing and hustling their clients — and one another — accompanied by the torrent of abuse that’s the lingua franca of their shady business.
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