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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
Sweet sister act songs of success in Stratford
The Etienne Sisters
Theatre Royal Stratford East
London E15
4/5
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
THE Etienne Sisters is a simple tale, elevated above the ordinary by an evocative and authentic script from writer-director Che Walker which makes effective use of local dialect.
Even so, none of the three distinctly drawn sisters initially invite warmth or empathy.
The judgemental and overly aspirational Tree (Nina Toussaint-White) is full sister to the irritatingly directionless and easy-going Ree (Jennifer Saayeng).
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