Latest editorial
ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
A lucid call to political action
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
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
CLF Art Cafe,Bussey Building, Peckham
4/5
This wild production of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is almost as tumultuous as the life of its author Robert Tressell.
In his 40-year life, Tressell had a rollercoaster ride from prosperity to utter poverty, but his primary contribution to the planet was his cherished novel of 1915.
Similar stories
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
Family issues and dragon-fuelled history amount to a vacuous spectacle that ill-fits the theatre, muses SIMON PARSONS
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
GEORGE FOGARTY is dazzled by a breathtakingly skillful puppet version of Shakespeare’s greatest love poem