EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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ALAN FRANK delights in Brian Cox’s tour de force performance in an intelligent story about a doomed Shakespearean actor
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
The Carer (15)
Directed by Janos Edelenyi
4/5
Nowadays too many showbusiness types seem eager to provide the ever-insatiable media with their views on anything and everything at the drop of a publicist.
But these “luvvies” — actors and actresses who incline to be “particularly effusive or affected” — could very well be seen to damage performers who value their profession more than celebrity.
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