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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Outsider view of jihad a sombre picture of the state we’re in
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
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
Another World: Losing Our
Children to Islamic State
National Theatre, London SE1
4/5
AFTER months of research and countless interviews, Another World arrives at the National. It’s fresh from the impressive stable of Nicolas Kent and Gillian Slovo who, at the Tricycle theatre in north-west London, gave us Guantanamo and The Riots.
Another significant landmark in Kent’s verbatim tradition, this documentary-style collection of personal accounts and opinions serves to stimulate inquiry into one of the biggest seismic movements of our time — the rise of the so-called Islamic State and its appeal to the young.
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