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
Thundercat
It Is What It Is
(Brainfeeder Records)
★★★
MUCH like 2017 breakthrough Drunk, the new album from Los Angeles bassist and singer Stephen Lee Bruner, aka Thundercat, is a delicious sprawling smorgasbord of styles, taking in jazz, funk, soul, hip-hop and soft rock.
And, like Drunk, it's co-produced by Flying Lotus, with a who’s who of gifted artists guesting on the record.
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