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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Go-to Lear from Talawa
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
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
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
King Lear
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
4/5
KIDS! What can you do, you give them everything and all you ask in return is complete love and devotion. And how do they respond? Stab you in the back.
To top it all, getting old is a real bitch and remember it’s not just your own kids who seek to topple the old guard, your mates are at it as well.
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