MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
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Wild, Hampstead Theatre London
Ingenious whistleblower drama from Mike Bartlett now online
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WILL STONE takes a ticket to indie disco heaven, but misses the rarely performed tunes
Reviews of new releases by Jens Lekman, Big Thief, and Christian McBride Big Band
TOM PIERSCIONEK recommends a remarkable series of interviews with those few and brave Israeli citizens who refuse to do military service
MIKE BARTLETT'S opening play in Hampstead Theatre's short season of free weekly online productions owes much to Pinter's comedies of menace, with their characteristic mixture of humour, mystery and lurking fear.
Like The Dumb Waiter, originally planned for Hampstead's main theatre programme — now postponed — Wild is set initially in a recognisable social context, with the plot progressively leaving the target character bewildered and unhinged.
Michael, played by Jack Farthing, is a somewhat naive Edward Snowden-type whistleblower who, having leaked a massive stash of incriminating Pentagon documents, is on the run.
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