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GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Neu Reekie, Leytonstone Ballroom, London
Ultimately rewarding mixed bag of spoken-word, music and film from an innovative Edinburgh ensemble
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
FORMED in Edinburgh in 2011, Neu Reekie is a loose collective of poets, artists, film-makers and musicians brought together on occasion by two Scots, poet Michael Pedersen and the writer and publisher Kevin Williamson.
Animating the human condition: Who I Am and What I Want
On a foray down south to the wondrous, fossilised venue that is Leytonstone Ballroom, a smattering of Scottish spoken-word presentations are on offer, most notably from Harry Josephine Giles, whose selection of poems, all with the same title of Abolish the Police, turn out to be the most interesting contribution of the night.
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