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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?
Neu Reekie, Leytonstone Ballroom, London
Ultimately rewarding mixed bag of spoken-word, music and film from an innovative Edinburgh ensemble
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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
FORMED in Edinburgh in 2011, Neu Reekie is a loose collective of poets, artists, film-makers and musicians brought together on occasion by two Scots, poet Michael Pedersen and the writer and publisher Kevin Williamson.
Animating the human condition: Who I Am and What I Want
On a foray down south to the wondrous, fossilised venue that is Leytonstone Ballroom, a smattering of Scottish spoken-word presentations are on offer, most notably from Harry Josephine Giles, whose selection of poems, all with the same title of Abolish the Police, turn out to be the most interesting contribution of the night.
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