MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
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TOM PIERSCIONEK recommends a remarkable series of interviews with those few and brave Israeli citizens who refuse to do military service
WHAT do you get if you take a group of young adults who have been through the care system, and shut them in a disused office building with face-paint, costumes and a copy of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion?
What if a plague is raging outside (so they say) and they can only eat if they maintain their posh turn-of-the-century characters, or be punished?
What if this bizarre subjection of vulnerable people to thespian instruments of torture is being streamed live for voyeurs with a taste for psychological breakdown in period costume, like a kind of agonising, stage-struck Luvvie Island?
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