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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The play is a powerful reminder of the arrogance, class hatred and professional incompetence that lead to tragedy of inimaginable scale, writes MARY CONWAY
EXCELLENT: (L to R) Thomas Wheatley, Ron Cook and Clair Lams
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If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
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Value Engineering
Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry
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THEATRE can serve many purposes but none so potent as when it gives public air time to the hearts and minds of people who live lives of quiet desperation.
In Value Engineering — an edited enactment of the Grenfell fire inquiry — we are called upon briefly to inhabit the souls not only of the 72 people who died or of the survivors or of the bereaved, but of all those who live at the harsh end of a careless, foolish and flawed society in which individuals at all levels shirk responsibility and play fast and loose with the welfare of others.
It’s a serious indictment of all we pretend to be.
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