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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
No joy with New Dawn
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
New Dawn Fades City Varieties, Leeds/Touring
JOY Division are as synonymous with Manchester as rain and Coronation Street. So it makes sense for any play about the influential band to feature the city as a secondary character.
But in New Dawn Fades writer Brian Gorman pays more attention to it than to the legendary outfit, dedicating more time to to local luminaries Friedrich Engels, John Dee and Roman general Julius Agricola in the first act than to the group.
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