Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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A no-holds-barred look at Palestinian life
MAYER WAKEFIELD recommends a captivating 45 minutes which deliver some hammer blows when much of mainstream theatre continues to turn the other cheek
(L to R) Rez Kabir, Ramzi DeHani and Issa Amro
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
How To Make A Revolution
Finborough Theatre (Online Production)
IT IS difficult not to be reminded of Nicholas Kent and Richard Norton-Taylor’s verbatim plays at the now-rechristened Tricycle Theatre when watching the online premiere of How To Make A Revolution.
Kent and Co’s reconstructions used theatre to uncover the truth behind high-profile crimes of the British state such as Bloody Sunday and the murder of Stephen Lawrence.
The opening instalment of the Finborough Theatre’s new digital initiative, #FinboroughFrontier, is a forthright look at Israeli apartheid which as its real-life protagonist, Issa Amro, reminds us is also a skeleton in the closet of the British government.
Blurring the lines between theatre and documentary we’re invited to step inside the world of Amro and experience the life of a human rights defender in Occupied Palestine.
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