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Dance: Remarkable WWI requiem
Lest We Forget — Barbican Centre, London EC2
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
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
5/5
On the face of it a dance programme commemorating the onset of the first world war might seem a lightweight proposition.
But Lest We Forget is both a vision of the hell of those distant battlefields and a comment on the war’s destructive impact on society.
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