MIK SABIERS savours the first headline solo show of the stalwart of Brighton’s indie-punk outfit Blood Red Shoes
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Tales from the Front Line… and other stories
Virus of racism diagnosed in acute commentaries on pandemic
Tales from the Front Line… and other stories
New releases reviewed by IAN SINCLAIR
STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
TALAWA, one of Britain’s foremost black theatre companies, has produced a set of short films reflecting on a momentous year when the truth of the Windrush scandal was finally revealed, the Black Lives Matter movement exploded and black people have been found to be four times more likely to die from the Covid-19 epidemic than their white counterparts.
Based on verbatim interviews with those in the front line of the battle against Covid-19, Tales from the Front Line brings home a renewed and painful awareness of the inbred racism in British society.
The first of the two has a primary school teacher struggling to convey her responses to the lack of support for staff and students to the increasing health emergency.
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