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MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
Paul Foley's theatre of the year
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
IT'S been another tough year for the north west but, throughout these turbulent times, the cultural life of the region has shone through the gloom.
Against the odds in 2017 our great theatres have continued to make audiences laugh, cry and become angry as well as determined to fight for a better world.
While most have tightened their belts, the Liverpool Everyman took the bold step of creating its own rep company that debuted with a smashing Fiddler on the Roof, a musical portrait of peasant life in tsarist Russia.
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