MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
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Navigating the harrowing passage to freedom
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PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The Mediterranean Wall
by Louis-Philippe Dalembert
Pushkin Press, £14.99
THE most harmful myth fuelled by right-wing politicians manufacturing a “hostile environment” to prevent refugees reaching our shores is that the majority are “economic migrants.”
The populist message is clear: the experiences of these people do not obey legal definitions of persecution in their own countries and so are merely chancers gaming a leaky international system and, thereby, undeserving of refugee status.
Yet the reality is so complex — and the personal stories of migrants so diverse— as to render largely pointless definitions extrapolated so cynically from international laws that went out of date long ago.
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