RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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In an era of cuts to drama education, the Dickens Theatre Company is providing a vital service with its schools tour of Macbeth, says LYNNE WALSH
Deadly duo: Rob Goll and Louise Faulkner in rehearsal
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
SCHOOL trips to see plays are vital, not only to young people’s English lessons but to the theatres hosting them.
Both the National and Globe theatres have reported a 7 per cent drop in educational bookings in the past year, with rising costs and falling teacher numbers being blamed.
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