GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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Best of 2020: Morning Star cartoons
(L to R) Dee Huez, Henny Beaumont, Citizen Chicane
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
THIS NEWSPAPER’S most notable cartoonists are a determined and fearless lot, uniquely skilled at mercilessly ambushing those holding the helm of the state. Shaming democracy, they have no regard for social justice.
Patronising working people, they are the epitome of moral and intellectual decay and in exposing them Star contributors follow in the best tradition of the irrepressible genius that was Mary Duval, the Hogarthian Adelaide Claxton, the astonishing Fay King and Ethel Hays, along with male cartoonists such as James Gillray, George Cruikshank or John Tenniel of Alice in Wonderland fame.
But they’re not mere imitators — each Star cartoonist has a highly individual and instantly recognisable style, employed in no-holds-barred satire and ridicule with dexterity and gusto.
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