ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
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The aftermath of revolution
MAYER WAKEFIELD falls in love with a deft and hilarious portrait of Cairo after the Arab Spring
Front: Tarrick Benham as Osman. Back (L-R) Nezar Alderazi as Rafik, Hanna Khogali as Alia, Moe Bar-El as Tamer, Eleanor Nawal as Lina, Yasemin Özdemir as Maya
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir
DENNIS BROE sifts out the ideological bias of the newest TV series offerings, and picks out what to see, and what to avoid
You Bury Me
Orange Tree Theatre
“THIS story isn’t even about 2011.
This story isn’t about that… dream.
This is a story about death.
The death of that dream.
This is about 2015”
The city of Cairo is not just the setting for You Bury Me but also the seventh character alongside six others who form an ensemble to voice the unrelenting energy of Egypt’s capital.
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