WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
A necessary meditation on the corrosiveness of fascism
MARY CONWAY applauds the timely restaging of a play premiered to world-wide acclaim in 1981
REVELATORY POWER: (L to R) Elliot Levey, David Tennant and Sharon Small
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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
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Harold Pinter Theatre
IT’S Germany 1933; the Nazis have exploded into power; Jewish religious practices are outlawed and public conversation is peppered with anti-Jewish rhetoric.
Euthanasia for the infirm is openly discussed; Hitler’s cabinet have suspended the right to protest, and the world is about to be rocked to its foundations by one fanatical man and one uncompromising idea. What would you do if you were there?
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