MARIA DUARTE recommends an extraordinary film that explores an absent father’s attempt to make up to his sons
Germaine Acogny: The mother of African dance at 80
LLIANE LOOTS speaks to Germaine Acogny and picks out two of her finest works
WE CARRY OUR HISTORIES IN OUR BODIES: Germaine Acogny in 2020; Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo perform Common Grounds, EIF 2023
[Présidence de la République du Bénin/Flickr; Maarten Vanden Abeele]
JOHN GREEN, MARIA DUARTE and LEO BOIX review The Shepherd and the Bear, Hamlet, Twinless, and 100 Nights of Hero
GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a version set amid the violent conflicts of the 19th century west African Oyo empire before the intervention of British colonialism
GILL PARSONS introduces the remarkable process by which her childhood experience of a convalescent home has become a new drama
SEAMUS HIGGINS introduces some basic facts about the role of sugar in driving a worldwide crisis of diet-related diseases
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