Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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An exploration of migration conundrums
SIMON PARSONS recommends an award-winning production of rare simplicity, graceful beauty and profound significance about Sri Lankan immigrants to Australia
A journey of self-discovery and exploration of how national events shape individual lives
[Brett Boardman]
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
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
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
Counting and Cracking
Birmingham Rep
FRESH from the Edinburgh Festival and bearing plaudits and awards from its homeland, this multinational production from Australia is a tale of reconnecting with one’s roots however painful and traumatic they may be.
Focusing largely but not exclusively on Sri Lankan immigrants to Australia, this sweeping epic spans three generations from 1956 post-colonial Ceylon and the rise to dominance of the Sinhalese community through the 1970s Tamil Tigers’ insurgence and the wave of suffering and forced migration that ensued up to 2004 and a first-generation Australian youngster alienated from his family’s history, language and culture.
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