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Sketchy results in bringing London to life on stage
Challenged: Penny Layden, Sophie Wu and Nav Sidhu in Sketching
[Simon Annand]
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
Sketching
Wilton’s Music Hall, London
SKETCHING, an ambitious take on Sketches by Boz, employs James Graham in collaboration with eight emerging writers to create a collage of London today in Dickensian style.
Four of the interwoven tales provide a fantastical plot, while the others add colour with a range of largely forgotten citizens moving on with their lives.
The episodic nature of the performance, mainly populated with caricatures, is enhanced by Elliot Griggs’s cartoon-style projections of the capital’s buildings and the atmospheric surroundings of Wilton’s Music Hall.
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