To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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An exuberant, heartrending production on overcoming disability
(L to R) Amanda Lawrence as the teacher Wainwright, Ramesh Mayyappan as Captain Chatter and Raphel Famotibe as Sonny
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Wonder Boy
Bristol Old Vic
DISCOVERED during the theatre’s New Writing Festival and postponed three times due to Covid, Ross Willis’s Wonder Boy finally reaches the stage as an exuberant, heartrending yet very funny production.
Twelve-year-old Sonny has created a silent, comic book figure, Captain Chatter, to cope with his crippling stutter.
This bargain-basin superhero uses every one of his mime skills to help Sonny avoid having to talk.
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