Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
A crowning achievement
PAUL DONOVAN recommends a great production of an immaculate adaptation, delivered with tremendous power by an excellent cast
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
The Mirror and the Light
Gielgud Theatre
THIS production of the Mirror and the Light represents a brilliant final part of the trilogy of plays tracking the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell.
It has been a while in arriving, coming seven years, after the dramatisation of the first two books Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.
This time the star of those plays, Ben Miles plus director Jeremy Herrin, have collaborated with writer Hilary Mantel to bring this production to the stage.
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