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?
Tragicomic dilemmas of a world where the drugs don't work
Outstanding: Becci Gemmell
[Steve Tanner]
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
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JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
The Here and This and Now
Southwark Playhouse, London
THE HERE and This and Now dispenses a pharmacological mix of farce and tragedy.
Glenn Waldron’s play, in a Plymouth Theatre Royal production, begins at the “away day” of pharmaceutical company McCabe, with team-bonding exercises, chanting and rehearsed sales pitches performed with varying degrees of success.
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