IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
Hit and miss
DAVID NICHOLSON samples two plays – one funny, one unfunny – that will open at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Moscow Love Story/Polly and Esther
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
TWO drag acts, Polly and Esther (★★★★), trying out their material in Cardiff before they head to the Edinburgh Fringe was an absolute joyous evening at the Sherman Theatre.
Twm Bollen-Molloy and Luke Hereford are Polly Amorous and Esther Parade and the evening starts with two cloaked and darkened figures talking to each other like macabre sister witches from Macbeth.
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