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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
Little more than a posh pantomime
Susan Darlington reviews She Stoops to Conquer at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
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
She Stoops to Conquer at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
2/5
If it’s not damning the company with faint praise, Northern Broadsides are usually dependably capable.
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