EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Waking up from the American dream
SIMON PARSONS admires an ambitious adaptation of a novel that plots the path from role-play to reality
ROLEPLAY: (L-R) Lukwesa Mwamba and Kalungi Ssebandeke in We Need New Names
[Robert Day Photography]
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
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
We Need New Names
The North Wall Arts Centre
STAGE adaptations of successful novels face both pros and cons.
They automatically ensure a conversant and expectant audience but then carry the burden of living-up to those expectations.
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker prize, this spirited, rites-of-passage story by black Zimbabwean, NoViolet Bulawayo is no exception.
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Family issues and dragon-fuelled history amount to a vacuous spectacle that ill-fits the theatre, muses SIMON PARSONS
MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class
PETER MASON applauds a stage version of Le Carre’s novel that questions what ordinary people have to gain from high-level governmental spying
GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship