MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
To re-enact, or not to re-enact?
MATTHEW HAWKINS revels in the metaphor — and the spectacle — of a group of argumentative medieval re-enacters caught at a crossroads
HEROIC TABLEAU AND MYTHOLOGICAL SPOOFS: Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s imaginative new dance work Assembly Hall
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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
I LIKED this show before it started. Crystal Pite is known for her insight into the resources of big theatres. She mobilises these with assurance and flair. The powers-that-be rightly queue up to engage her. Here she is at Edinburgh International Festival vaunting a piece of dance-theatre in which “a group of medieval re-enactors gather for their annual general meeting.”
On paper alone, this is priceless.
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