MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
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It’s only rock ’n’ roll, but you’ll like it
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
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
to a simple, rock ‘n’ roll ... song
Barbican, London EC2
5/5
IN SATIE Studs/Ogives Composite, the first part of to a simple, rock ’n’ roll ... song, the ex-enfant terrible of British dance Michael Clark appears to have arrived at a more serene place in his choreography.
Previously renowned for going loud and wild, here his dancers are embedded in an extraordinarily rigorous physical architecture.
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