JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology
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MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones
JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system
MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star
MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
Itasca
Spring
(Paradise of Bachelors)
★★★★
LOS ANGELES-BASED musician Kayla Cohen, who records under the moniker Itasca, wrote her seventh album in an old adobe house in New Mexico, having retreated there for two seasons partly in response to the election of Donald Trump.
Inspired by the history and distinctive landscape of the region, the organic folky ballads on Spring constitute a set of impressionistic, sun-dappled travelogues.
Accompanied by members of Gun Outfit, Bitchin’ Bajas and James Elkington, Cohen’s hushed vocals beautifully meld with her terrific acoustic guitar strumming, piano, discreet strings and the occasional lap steel guitar.
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