GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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A necessary meditation on the corrosiveness of fascism
MARY CONWAY applauds the timely restaging of a play premiered to world-wide acclaim in 1981
REVELATORY POWER: (L to R) Elliot Levey, David Tennant and Sharon Small
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
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Harold Pinter Theatre
IT’S Germany 1933; the Nazis have exploded into power; Jewish religious practices are outlawed and public conversation is peppered with anti-Jewish rhetoric.
Euthanasia for the infirm is openly discussed; Hitler’s cabinet have suspended the right to protest, and the world is about to be rocked to its foundations by one fanatical man and one uncompromising idea. What would you do if you were there?
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