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WILL STONE gets a little lost in a play about memory that misremembers another production of itself
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JOHN HAWKINS is moved by an oral history that examines five black families pushed into homelessness in the US
BOB NEWLAND recommends an outstanding study of how images have shaped narratives of identity, resistance and power in South Africa
While the group known as the Colourists certainly reinvigorated Scottish painting, a new show is a welcome chance to reassess them, writes ANGUS REID
In an exhibition of the graphic art of Lorna Miller, MATT KERR takes a lungful of the oxygen of dissent
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Mnemonic
National Theatre, London
MEMORY is a fascinating thing. How is it that we can remember what we did on New Year’s Eve last year but most of us will struggle to recall what we were doing on Wednesday evening two weeks ago?
Big occasions like new year, birthdays and holidays act like mnemonics, something that aids memory, which is usually associated with rhymes, patterns or acronyms such as ROYGBIV for the colours of the rainbow.
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