GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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GORDON PARSONS highly recommends a delightful production of the classic novel that emanates a sense of warmth and love
BRILLIANT: Dee Ahluwalia as Karim (centre)
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The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
The Buddha of Suburbia
The Swan Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon
ADAPTING any novel for the stage creates problems but Hanif Kureishi’s first kaleidoscopic novel with its range of characters, almost Dickensian in their idiosyncrasies, and profusion of incidents, poses any director a challenge.
Fortunately Emma Rice, of Knee High and Wise Children fame, is well up to the task.
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