MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
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An uneven piece that never fully lands
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a play that often leaves the audience with too little to hold on to as the main thrust of the story
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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
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
The Ballad of Hattie and James
The Kiln
IT’S a great story. Talented pianists Hattie and James meet when they’re 16. He progresses through life as a musician while she drops away: another great woman casually junked from the roll call of history.
Only when she, one day, spontaneously pours out her soul with a public performance on the piano at St Pancras International does she suddenly garner fame by going viral on the internet.
A truly gender-driven triumph!
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