PAUL DONOVAN recommends an intriguing tale of abuse, bullying, revenge and long-held grudges

New releases from Biita Houdei, The Mary Wallopers, and The Tubs
 

PETER MASON applauds the revival, 39 years later with the same team and cast, of Manfred Karge’s version of Brecht’s 100-year-old play, Mann Ist Mann

RITA DI SANTO recommends an astonishing documentary that offers first hand accounts of how the IDF plans and enforces its genocide of Palestinians

NICK WRIGHT laments the political bias of an epic attempt to tell the history of the liberation of France from the Nazis, that excludes both the decisive contribution of the Soviet Red Army, and of the French communist party itself

MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds a fearless attempt to bring to the stage the 1984 toxic gas disaster in Bhopal, India

JOE GILL traces the ideology and method of contemporary imperialism back to the greed, hubris and violence of the late 15th century Portuguese

GORDON PARSONS enjoys Kant’s ‘mind-boggling’ theory of human reality: that we create the reality we experience

ALEX HALL applauds the account of a dogged, traumatic and punishing campaign for justice that has lasted from 1998 to the present day

MARTIN HALL relishes a new intellectual history of Sir Thomas More that cuts through the myth and returns to primary sources

MARIA DUARTE and JAMES WALSH review Queen At Sea, The Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream, Bad Apples, Pulp: What Do You Do For An Encore?, and Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom