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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Defeatist assumptions mar ideological message
JAN WOOLF is thrilled by the theatre but laments the omission of any reference to collective consciousness in class struggle
All kitted out for 'revolution'
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
The Nobodies
Pleasance Theatre Islington
A NORTHERN town still hurts from the miners’ strike, but three young working-class friends hurt for another reason: the local hospital is to close.
Aaron’s mum is dying of cancer, Rhea’s job as a trainee nurse is at stake, and ringleader Curtis, a recently homeless graduate, burns with anger and revolutionary zeal.
The moving of hospital services 30 miles away will make lives that are already difficult wretched. But the trio are not too low to find the energy and organising power to resist an inhumane decision that’s in no-one’s interest, except those who will profit from it.
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