STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Bloody good
GORDON PARSONS meditates on the appetite of contemporary audiences for the obscene cruelty of Shakespeare’s Roman nightmare
BLOODBATH: Simon Russell Beale (centre) as Titus Andronicus / Pic: Marc Brenner
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
Titus Andronicus
The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
★★★★
GIVEN the fact that Shakespeare’s early revenge tragedy, after its initial success, disappeared from the stage for 300 years, its revival since the mid-20th century must reflect something about our contemporary world.
History has always been violent but as far as most people not directly involved are concerned that’s exactly what it is, history. Today, however, we see and experience that violence in all its horror virtually as it happens through daily television news.
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