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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
Theatre Review: Troubled testimony
An act of storytelling and witness to the civil war consuming Syria brings an anguished human dimension to the fore, says JOE GILL
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
Oh My Sweet Land
Young Vic Theatre, London SE1
3/5
Oh my Sweet Land begins with a woman walking on stage carrying plastic shopping bags which she unloads onto a kitchen table.
While preparing the traditional Arabic dish kibbeh she begins to tell the story of how she met a Syrian man called Ashraf in Paris who is haunted by the friends and family he has left back in the war zone.
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Family issues and dragon-fuelled history amount to a vacuous spectacle that ill-fits the theatre, muses SIMON PARSONS
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
MARY CONWAY is spellbound by superb performances in Arthur Miller’s study of the social and personal stress brought about by Nazi Germany’s Kristallnacht
MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class