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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Monstrous victim of abuse and poor script
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
Medusa
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds/Touring
THE REFRAMING of Medusa as the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of a powerful man is extremely timely, given the ongoing fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
Rather than being the monster of mythology, Helen Mort has developed her into “a woman who exacts her revenge on the men that destroyed her and the gods that cursed her.”
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