In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
A beautifully-crafted documentary from Sinéad O’Shea
Edna O'Brien in London, 1971
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
MATTHEW HAWKINS is mesmerised by a performance that dissolves the line between audience and performer
MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes the reissue of a seminal work of revolutionary theory that have genuine relevance in the current context
RON JACOBS rides shotgun with a member of Black Bloc on the wave of anti-capitalist protests of the 1990s and early 2000s
Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story
Directed by Sinéad O’Shea
ONE of Ireland’s most important 20th-century novelists and a woman of verve, intelligence and wit, Edna O’Brien is memorialised fittingly in Sinead O’Shea’s beautifully crafted documentary.
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