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Smoke-filled living room
WILL STONE admires a revival of Pinter’s dark exploration of male chauvinism and sexuality
(L - R) Nicolas Tennant, Jared Harris, Robert Emms and David Angland in The Homecoming
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SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
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TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
The Homecoming
Young Vic
SMOKE as thick as fog looms across a large room in a ’60s London home as free jazz blares out from an old gramophone on the floor in Moi Tran’s atmospheric set for director Matthew Dunster’s revival of The Homecoming, one of Harold Pinter’s darkest plays.
The Big Smoke it may be, but it soon becomes apparent that in this testosterone-fuelled house everyone smokes like chimneys. There are no women (yet) only bitter and broken men.
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