Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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Best of 2018: Performance
by SIMON PARSONS
Revengeful: Anya Chalotra in The Village
[Alastair Muir]
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
UNQUESTIONABLY, a highlight of the theatrical year was unearthed in the damp Underbelly vaults below the central library at the Edinburgh fringe festival.
Rhum and Clay’s updated production of Dario Fo’s twisted morality play Mistero Buffo transforms the mediaeval jongleur to a zero-hours Deliveroo worker, played by Julian Spooner.
Originally denounced by the Vatican as "the most blasphemous show in the history of television," Fo’s controversial drama is a series of biblically inspired monologues, yet, in the hands of Spooner, over 100 characters take to the stage from a hysterical, manic and over-commercialised resurrection of Lazarus to a profoundly disturbing portrayal of Christ unwilling to be saved from his iconic crucifixion.
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