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Theatre: Melody Loses Her Mojo
The story of a young woman on society's margins who struggles against the odds is an inspiring piece of theatre, says PAUL FOLEY
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
Melody Loses Her Mojo
Contact Theatre, Manchester/Touring
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