ALISTAIR FINDLAY recommends the simple cadence, common prose, free verse, and descriptive power of a new collection by Julie McNeill

FRANK McCAULEY gets Laid

MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about a two-handed theatrical homage to jazz’s most mercurial musician

ANDY HEDGECOCK is enthralled by a collection of South Korean ghost stories where human behaviour is as chilling as any spectral activity

DAVID YEARSLEY examines the soundtrack and filmic predecessors of the execrable Melania

SIMON PARSONS is charmed by a hilarious tender show that will open the eyes to the delights and possibilities of puppetry

SCOTT ALSWORTH suggests that video games have a lot to learn the rich tradition of Marxist theatre