Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Best of 2018: London Theatre
by PETER MASON
Spellbinding: Pinocchio at the National Theatre
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
KEVIN DONNELLY and MARIA DUARTE review Shoot the People, The Last One For The Road, Rosebush Pruning, and Moana
JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
STEVEN BERKOFF'S East is not easy to stage, but, in January, director Jessica Lazar and her cast of five made the absolute most of what they had to work with at the King's Head.
There were highly impressive performances by two actors fresh out of drama school from Boadicea Ricketts as the earthily confident young Sylv and Jack Condon as the bored, street-fighting shoe-shop assistant Les but the standout was 25-year-old James Craze as Mike, who coped with the physical and emotional gymnastics of his Jack the Lad part as if it had been written directly for him, rather than first performed almost two decades before his birth.
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