MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
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Sympathy for the devils
‘There's outrage aplenty in this production but we never quite get to the dark night of the soul,’ writes WILL STONE
HOMOSEXUAL REPRESSION: Kingsley Ben-Adir as Brick and Seb Carrington as Skipper
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
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TENNESSEE Williams’s favourite play is a masterpiece of richly drawn characters, open to seemingly endless interpretation.
Set on a cotton plantation in the Deep South, the original 1955 production had a white cast performing as the family of wealthy landowners with black actors playing servants.
Since then productions have featured an all-black cast and those set in the modern era complete with mobile phones and iPads.
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