MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Martin Luther King revisited
MAYER WAKEFIELD salutes a fresh angle on the conflicted soul that led the civil rights movement
Adrian Decosta as Martin Luther King, with Will Batty, Andrew Earl and Lincoln James
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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
The Life and Death of Martin Luther King
Golden Goose Theatre, London
“THE only thing that I’m truly scared of is myself” is the line that lingers in the mind as the audience departs TNT Theatre’s turbulent retelling of MLK’s famous life.
Sandwiched in a discussion between his wife Corretta and his trusted right-hand man Ralph Abernathy during the Montgomery bus boycott, the almost-mythical Baptist minister seems consumed by self-doubt, as he does through much of this production.
Snappy vignettes of King’s campaigning life retell many of his victorious struggles from Selma, Alabama, to Washington DC with creative vigour.
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
PAUL DONOVAN applauds a timely play that explores the resonances of McCarthyite nationalism in today’s US
GORDON PARSONS admires a version of Marlowe’s grim tragedy that strips it down to its gay essentials
MAYER WAKEFIELD wonders why this 1978 drama merits a revival despite demonstrating that the underlying theme of racism in the UK remains relevant