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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Catalogue of abuse
Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight is a brilliant and disturbing exploration of mental domestic cruelty, says PETER FROST
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
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
Gaslight
Royal and Derngate, Northampton
4/5
PATRICK Hamilton was probably the best known British communist playwright and novelist of his generation.
He never denied his Marxist politics and he was always known as a communist playwright although he never officially declared or denied his Communist Party membership.
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