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The Political History of Smack and Crack, Bristol Old Vic/Touring
Telling reportage on the 1980s drugs havoc in inner-city Britain
DYSFUNCTIONAL: Eve Steele and William Fox as Mandy and Neil
[The Other Richard]
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
INSIGHTFUL and stirring, this award-winning 70-minute exposé of the rise in drug abuse at the time of the 1981 inner-city riots is another exciting production at Bristol Old Vic’s Studio space.
Eve Steele and William Fox play Mandy and Neil, both from dysfunctional Mancunian families, who live through the riots in Moss Side repeated that year in many English cities suffering from social deprivation.
According to writer Ed Edwards, before 1981 there were only 3,000 known drug addicts in England, invariably middle-class users, and heroin was largely unknown on the streets. But four years later, 333,000 mainly working-class addicts were registered as heroin freely flowed through the inner cities.
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