MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Theatre director JOLLEY GOSNOLD tells Lynne Walsh why he's bringing an Ibsen classic bang up to date
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
ADAPTING a complex and politically charged classic by literary colossus Henrik Ibsen may seem daunting enough.
More than that, the new production of his play An Enemy of the People, about to open at The Playground Theatre in west London, promises “a new, diverse, modern adaptation,” a description which might strike dread into many a reviewer’s heart.
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