ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Best of 2018: London Theatre
by PETER MASON
Spellbinding: Pinocchio at the National Theatre
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
STEVEN BERKOFF'S East is not easy to stage, but, in January, director Jessica Lazar and her cast of five made the absolute most of what they had to work with at the King's Head.
There were highly impressive performances by two actors fresh out of drama school from Boadicea Ricketts as the earthily confident young Sylv and Jack Condon as the bored, street-fighting shoe-shop assistant Les but the standout was 25-year-old James Craze as Mike, who coped with the physical and emotional gymnastics of his Jack the Lad part as if it had been written directly for him, rather than first performed almost two decades before his birth.
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