MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
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The Oresteia is a Greek tragedy with thought-provoking insights into the male struggle over paternity rights with women, says MARY ADOSSIDES
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The Oresteia at Globe Theatre, London SE1
4/5
A BLOODY cycle of familial revenge drives Aeschylus’s great trilogy of plays with the uneasy, and at times antagonistic, relationship between divine and civic law — as it is in much Greek tragedy.
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