Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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Theatre: Brilliant dystopian fable with fat-cat message for our times
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 Animals and Children Took to the Streets
HOME, Manchester
1927, the creative team behind the extraordinary and internationally acclaimed Golem, have come up with another stunning mixture of theatre, poetry, film, animation and song in this sinister tale.
The Animals and Children Took to the Streets is set in a dystopian world where the outcasts of society, banished to Redherring Street, live in the rotting tenement Bayou Mansion alongside an assortment of misfits — perverts, peeping Toms, gangsters and Wayne the racist.
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PAUL FOLEY picks out an excellent example of theatre devised to start conversations about identity, class and belonging
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
STEF LYONS is swept along by the infectious energy of an ex-con single mother’s dreams of Nashville
SIMON PARSONS applauds a moving version of Ishiguro’s vision of a world in which science and ethics have diverged