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ANGUS REID sees a Jacobean gore-fest brilliantly transformed into a mordant take on contemporary class prejudice
Full of corpses: The Duchess (of Malfi)
[Tim Morozzo]
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
The Duchess (of Malfi)
Tramway Glasgow
“YOUR office is full of corpses,” observes a character stepping into the blood-drenched final scene of Zinnie Harris’s adaptation of John Webster’s Jacobean shocker.
All resemblance to Conservative Party HQ is purely intentional and one of the many ways in which this violent, plain-speaking play has been polished up to reflect present-day Britain.
The office is run by an amoral sexist patriarch who abuses anyone, including his own family, to maintain his grip on wealth and power.
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