LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
Political theatre and the Miners’ Strike
DAWN EVANS recommends the memoir of A39, the remarkable Cornish political theatre troupe
Paul Farmer in a Miracle Theatre street performance, Falmouth, Cornwall, Spring 1984; One & All! poster for A39’s first performance at The Crypt Centre, Truro, March 1985; One & All!–the Tinners’ Jig live at Geevor Mine, days before closure
[George J. Greene/CC]
KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an entertaining dramatisation of the famous dispute that gives insight into the struggle, and Murdoch’s unscrupulous mendacity
ELLIS RAE is disappointed by the revival of a nihilistic play that fails to offer alternatives for social change
After The Miners’ Strike - A39 and Cornish Political Theatre Verses Thatcher’s Britain
Paul Farmer, Open Books, £23.99
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