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PETER MASON applauds the revival, 39 years later with the same team and cast, of Manfred Karge’s version of Brecht’s 100-year-old play, Mann Ist Mann
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By Alastair Mcleish
New releases from Biita Houdei, The Mary Wallopers, and The Tubs
New releases from Biita Houdei, The Mary Wallopers, and The Tubs
MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds a fearless attempt to bring to the stage the 1984 toxic gas disaster in Bhopal, India
ALEX HALL applauds the account of a dogged, traumatic and punishing campaign for justice that has lasted from 1998 to the present day
NICK WRIGHT laments the political bias of an epic attempt to tell the history of the liberation of France from the Nazis, that excludes both the decisive contribution of the Soviet Red Army, and of the French communist party itself
Eyes like a whippet’s balls
HR man does his roll call,
Since Friday he’s been gunning
To hit this morning running.
A long, morose weekend
He’ll never recommend,
Confesses all day Sunday
To wishing it was Monday.
His live team-building shows
Mock Sisyphus’s throes,
How he took his labour ill
With his boulder on that hill.
For by HR’s broad shoulder,
He would have loved that boulder,
Can’t slavery be a ball?
All for one, and one for all?
Of course, we’d never praise
Chillaxed, enlightened ways,
Or make a futile fuss
At how HR belittles us,
(We’re losers, punks, dead-ends
Sluggards, nine-to-five’s friends)
To us, a pinch of salt
No point in finding fault,
Like Death, we can’t o’erthrow
A team-building road show.
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