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549: Scots of the Spanish Civil War
Dynamic young theatre company commemorates the International Brigades
ON A JOURNEY: Wonder Fools
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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
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
INCREASINGLY creating their own work, young writers, actors and directors are not afraid to tackle some hefty stories based on real life.
Bringing alive radical history and recalling the lives of ordinary people achieving extraordinary things is the mission of small companies such as Townsend Productions with their play Dare Devil Rides to Jarama and, pre-lockdown, acapella group The Young ’Uns were touring The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff.
Both pieces focus on a febrile time and complex events, when the Spanish civil war broke out in the summer of 1936.
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