CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Under Three Moons, Carriageworks Theatre Leeds/Touring
Effectively understated exploration of male friendship
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
UNDER Three Moons manages to sum up half a lifetime in just three names: Mikey, Mike and Michael.
Low-key: Darren Kuppan and Kyle Rowe (Pic: Alex Mead/Decoy Media)
Mikey, introduced as a loud-mouthed and fidgety teenager on a school trip to France, sits in the cold with the jittery Paul, with his attempts to apologise for a night-time prank hampered by stale notions of masculinity.
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