NICK MATTHEWS welcomes the return of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s music to the repertoire of this years’ Three Choirs Festival
Un-American activities
MARY CONWAY feels the contemporary resonance of a new play set amid the manic and self-destructive patriotism of the McCarthy era
Jasmine Blackorow (Miss Bauer) and Michael Aloni (Art) in David Edgar's Here is America
[Manuel Harlan] 
LEO BOIX reviews a caustic novel of resistance and womanhood by Buenos Aires-born Lucia Lijtmaer, and an electrifying poetry collection by Chilean Vicente Huidobro
MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
Here in America
Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond
“WHY should I see this play? And why now?” These are common questions asked by discerning audiences.
David Edgar’s new play at the Orange Tree answers with its title, for this is a play exemplifying contemporary America.
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Congress is pushing absurd anti-communist propaganda into schools as young Americans increasingly reject capitalism — and this is an attempt to lay the ground for attacks on socialist nations and US unions too, warns JOHN WOJCIK
MAYER WAKEFIELD speaks to playwright David Edgar about the political analysis that underlies his two new plays