In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
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Dusting off a Shakespearan fairy tale
GORDON PARSONS applauds a production which turns a Jacobean obscurity into a dreamlike journey
DREAM-LIKE: Alfred Enoch as Pericles
[Johan Persson] 
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
MATTHEW HAWKINS is mesmerised by a performance that dissolves the line between audience and performer
MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes the reissue of a seminal work of revolutionary theory that have genuine relevance in the current context
RON JACOBS rides shotgun with a member of Black Bloc on the wave of anti-capitalist protests of the 1990s and early 2000s
Pericles
The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
THIS fairy tale for adults, thought to have been only partially Shakespeare’s work, is relatively rarely produced today on the modern stage. It did not even appear in the First Folio, the Bard’s Bible. Yet it was apparently very popular in its own day.
Tamara Harvey’s new production for the RSC should serve to resurrect its popularity.
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