APURBA CHATTERJEE explains how British artists in India used the “picturesque” to reshape colonial landscapes and celebrate imperial power
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ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER talks to Joe Gill about bringing the message of the 17th-century English revolution bang up to date in the Corbyn era with a unique mix of punk and early music
The Monarch’s Way by Barnstormer 1649
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries
SIMON PARSONS applauds an exceptional performance of Wesker’s little-known play, by the same actor for whom it was written 45 years ago
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Late Fame, The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
ANGUS REID recommends a uniquely accomplished documentary collage that contemplates our relation to the natural world
GORDON PARSONS enjoys Kant’s ‘mind-boggling’ theory of human reality: that we create the reality we experience
IF ATTILA the Stockbroker had his way, the fate of Charles II following his defeat at the battle of Worcester in 1651 — the last of the English civil war — would have been sealed. His escape would have been foiled and the restoration of the monarchy postponed indefinitely.
The ranting radical poet from Southwick on the Sussex coast has a special interest in the escape of the future king because it took place a few hundred yards from where he has lived — and fished — most of his life.
“It’s a big story around here. The Great Escape festival, the yacht race — it’s all a celebration of him getting away. I wish he’d been caught and strung up. It would have ended the monarchy once and for all and left a lot more money for the NHS — if they’d had one in 1649.”
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