EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Martin Luther King revisited
MAYER WAKEFIELD salutes a fresh angle on the conflicted soul that led the civil rights movement
Adrian Decosta as Martin Luther King, with Will Batty, Andrew Earl and Lincoln James
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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
The Life and Death of Martin Luther King
Golden Goose Theatre, London
“THE only thing that I’m truly scared of is myself” is the line that lingers in the mind as the audience departs TNT Theatre’s turbulent retelling of MLK’s famous life.
Sandwiched in a discussion between his wife Corretta and his trusted right-hand man Ralph Abernathy during the Montgomery bus boycott, the almost-mythical Baptist minister seems consumed by self-doubt, as he does through much of this production.
Snappy vignettes of King’s campaigning life retell many of his victorious struggles from Selma, Alabama, to Washington DC with creative vigour.
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