Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Truth to power
MARIA DUARTE recommends a powerful and moving dramatisation of two journalists’ efforts to uncover the predatory truth about Harvey Weinstein, which kickstarted the Me Too movement
She Said
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
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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
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
She Said (15)
Directed by Maria Schrader
THIS powerful and moving drama recounts the extraordinary and unrelenting work by New York Times journalists Jodie Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) to lift the lid on Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s abuse of women, which ignited the Me Too movement.
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