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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
Surrealism breaks code of Turing’s complexity
KATHERINE M GRAHAM reviews Lovesong of the Electric Bear
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
Lovesong of the Electric Bear, Arts Theatre, London WC2
4/5
LOVESONG of the Electric Bear tells the story of computer genius Alan Turing, hung out to dry by the Establishment for his homosexuality even though his code-breaking played an essential role in ensuring WWII victory.
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MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
Family issues and dragon-fuelled history amount to a vacuous spectacle that ill-fits the theatre, muses SIMON PARSONS
KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
ANGUS REID applauds the potential of an ambitious show about Gaza, and encourages it to keep its nerve