GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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100 Posters that Changed the World
(L to R) New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) Planned Housing poster; Civil rights movement US, I am a Man; Stonewall, Some Poeple are Gay. Get over it! campaign poster; Family Planning Association (FPA, UK) 1970 ‘Pregnant Man’ campaign poster
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
GRANDIOSE marketing statements, like the claim contained in the title of this book, might invite disappointment from the discerning reader as inevitably more than a few posters included may not live up to the hype.
And, as is the case here, many classics are notable by their absence — Atelier Populaire, Rosta posters, Gustav Klutsis and Polish film and theatre posters among them.
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