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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: A Streetcar Named Desire at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds
It’s easy to get lost in the contradictions of a new production of A Streetcar Named Desire, says SUSAN DARLINGTON, but it’s ultimately worth the trip
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
Rating: 3/5
Tennessee Williams’s classic play about lust, jealousy and pride is set in the swampy heat of New Orleans but here Secret Theatre company designer Hyemi Shin has reimagined the central cheap apartment as a kind of icebox — three stark white walls forming a set that’s lit by vertical neon strips.
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SIMON PARSONS applauds the timely revival of a play about solidarity and betrayal within Britain’s Pakistani community
RAMZY BAROUD and ROMANA RUBEO analyse how the US has consistently negotiated in bad faith to secure the element of surprise in military attack