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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
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
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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