EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Good intentions gone for a Burton
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
Butterfly Effect
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds/Touring
ONE day last year, Juliette Burton was informed that her aunt had a terminal illness and her dog had died.
Finding herself alone and in tears at London's King's Cross Station, her life was changed when a stranger gave her a tissue — a small gesture that made her reconsider her own and society's attitude towards kindness.
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At the Edinburgh Fringe, MATTHEW HAWKINS reviews eight shows in a single day in one venue, all of which reward the spectator
SIMON PARSONS applauds an artist who rescues and rehumanises stories of women, the victims of violence, from a feminist perspective
SUSAN DARLINGTON swoons in the presence of a magnetic frontman
Although this production was in rehearsal before the playwright’s death, it allows us to pay homage to his life, suggests MARY CONWAY