GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Fighting her corner
MAYER WAKEFIELD sees grime poet Debris Stevenson score heavily in her battle against prejudice
Poet in the Corner
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
Poet in da Corner
Royal Court Theatre, London
GRIME poet, pansexual ex-Mormon and bashment-dancing social activist Debris Stevenson is not just speaking for herself when she states at this show's opening that Dizzee Rascal’s seminal Boy in the Corner gave her “permission to exist.”
From Alex Turner to Danny Brown, the ageless grime album has inspired artists across the board, but Stevenson takes things to another level by dedicating 75 minutes of full-throttle energy to a semi-autobiographical musical in homage to the 2003 masterpiece and its parent genre.
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