STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
THIS latest play from political playwright James Graham plots the career of Labour MP David Lyons.
An entertaining romp through Labour’s recent history, it highlights the party’s difficulties through the lens of one constituency office in Nottingham where Lyons (Martin Freeman), supported by his corporate lawyer wife Elizabeth (Rachael Stirling), has been in office since 1990.
Set throughout in the office, it opens as he is about to lose the previously safe seat in last June’s election. A ruminating Lyons pictures himself becoming the Michael Portillo or Ed Balls of election night and declares that he’d better polish up his paso doble.
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