EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
A Tarantino-style blend of humour and violence
AMUSINGLY BLUNT: (L to R) Cecilia Noble (She), Tamara Lawrance (Racine) and Adelayo Adedayo (Anaia)
[Tristram Kenton]
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Is God Is
Royal Court Theatre
ALESHEA Harris’s award winning play opened to rave reviews in New York in 2018 and now explodes on to the stage at the Royal Court with Ola Ince’s taut, visceral production.
Black twin sisters Racine and Anaia emerge from nowhere, scarred and on a mission to avenge their mother who as far as they are concerned has risen from the dead and understandably wants revenge on her former husband.
Their blood-spattered quest takes them to the mountains of California in an attempt to trace their father, now living a respectable middle-class married life with a disenchanted wife and a new set of twins.
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Family issues and dragon-fuelled history amount to a vacuous spectacle that ill-fits the theatre, muses SIMON PARSONS
SIMON PARSONS applauds the timely revival of a play about solidarity and betrayal within Britain’s Pakistani community
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
GEORGE FOGARTY is dazzled by a breathtakingly skillful puppet version of Shakespeare’s greatest love poem