RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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[James Walsh]
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Comedy From Hell
Bill Murray pub, Angel Comedy, London
THE young men in the front row aren’t sure what’s going on.
Let me explain it to them: they’re at a brand new comedy night called Comedy From Hell, and an Estonian clown is trying to get them to do high-fives with a plastic leg.
Sunday night audiences, as Mark Silcox suggests, are sophisticated and discerning. As opposed to Saturday ones, who just want topical gags and to be asked where they’re from.
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