GORDON PARSONS is bowled over by a skilfully stripped down and powerfully relevant production of Hamlet
Moving, mesmerising, memorable
PAUL FARMER highly recommends Reg Meuross’s tour Stolen From God, a collection of songs confronting the legacies of the slave trade
In which we accompany the Bard into Cymru to meet his musical accomplices, young and old
SUE TURNER is inspired by the example of a librarian’s struggle to confront the book-banning movement
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews I Am Martin Parr, September Says, The Monkey, and The Gorge
RITA DI SANTO applauds a touching and witty opener that touches a hot topic in Germany: the future of the immigrant population
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
Reg Meuross and Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne with Karen Gledhill
Devoran Acoustic Sessions
SOME aspects of events, past or present can be too appalling to contemplate, so ambitious work such as Reg Meuross’s song cycle Stolen From God has a significant job to do leading our attention into and through the realities of a part of history that still has enormous implications in the contemporary world: the slave trade.
It does it well.
Meuross is currently touring the piece in the UK. His performance at Devoran was with Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne on anglo concertina, melodeon and voice. Other tour dates will also feature Suntou Susso on kora, and different narrators.
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