RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Mamet’s funny kind of sales pitch
LYNNE WALSH sees a top-drawer cast triumph in the US dramatist’s scabrous depiction of a desperate salesman on the make
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
WHO’D have imagined that an evening in the company of a set of alpha males could be so joyous?
The Playhouse revival of David Mamet’s barnstormer Glengarry Glen Ross is a belter.
From curtain up, with Stanley Townsend’s defiant Shelly Levene, we’re in safe hands in this dissection of desperate salesmen schmoozing and hustling their clients — and one another — accompanied by the torrent of abuse that’s the lingua franca of their shady business.
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