STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Dem Times, Omnibus Theatre Clapham
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MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
THE award-winning Omnibus Theatre in London, under the dynamic artistic direction of Marie McCarthy, describes itself as “a home of storytelling — a small place to encounter big ideas.”
And in the current climate of shock and stillness, that need for storytelling could never be more urgent.
One such story is that of Samuel Adjei in Jacob Roberts-Mensah and Rhys Reed-Johnson’s Dem Times, directed by Poppy Clifford, bow available on a podcast.
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