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
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Stirring revival of a doleful 1930s polemic
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
Love on the Dole
Various venues, Salford
5/5
THIS promenade production in five different locations — three of them in an unseasonal but appropriate Salford downpour — opens in an old Salford mill.
What follows is a first-class interpretation of Walter Greenwood’s classic account of a community blighted by unemployment in the 1930s.
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