MICK MCSHANE is roused by a band whose socialism laces every line of every song with commitment and raw passion
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AMUSINGLY BLUNT: (L to R) Cecilia Noble (She), Tamara Lawrance (Racine) and Adelayo Adedayo (Anaia)
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
Is God Is
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ALESHEA Harris’s award winning play opened to rave reviews in New York in 2018 and now explodes on to the stage at the Royal Court with Ola Ince’s taut, visceral production.
Black twin sisters Racine and Anaia emerge from nowhere, scarred and on a mission to avenge their mother who as far as they are concerned has risen from the dead and understandably wants revenge on her former husband.
Their blood-spattered quest takes them to the mountains of California in an attempt to trace their father, now living a respectable middle-class married life with a disenchanted wife and a new set of twins.
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