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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A production doomed by lack of discernible purpose
A fantastical idea pushed way too far: (L to R) Ria Zmitrowicz, Rakie Ayola, Fisayo Akinade
[Manuel Harlan]
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
The Glow
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BASED on a premise originating in a little known book by Jessica Waites entitled The Woman in Time, the play attempts to personify an immortal female spirit erratically observed on our shores throughout history.
Usually bathed in a glowing light, her questionable presence in paintings, poems and written accounts was originally explained as a symbol or gauge of the time.
Alistair McDowall has turned this allegorical figure into a flesh and blood, supernatural agent unable to control her full powers. If this sounds a bit like another figure from one of the superhero franchises, you are not far off the mark.
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