Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
To re-enact, or not to re-enact?
MATTHEW HAWKINS revels in the metaphor — and the spectacle — of a group of argumentative medieval re-enacters caught at a crossroads
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
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
I LIKED this show before it started. Crystal Pite is known for her insight into the resources of big theatres. She mobilises these with assurance and flair. The powers-that-be rightly queue up to engage her. Here she is at Edinburgh International Festival vaunting a piece of dance-theatre in which “a group of medieval re-enactors gather for their annual general meeting.”
On paper alone, this is priceless.
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