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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
Dystopia speaks to our times
Paul Foley reviews Pomona
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
Pomona at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
4/5
POMONA is the strange derelict island which straddles Salford and Manchester. Once heaving with dockers, labourers and big ships, today it’s a wasteland ensnared by a couple of canals, twisting motorways and busy tramlines.
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Family issues and dragon-fuelled history amount to a vacuous spectacle that ill-fits the theatre, muses SIMON PARSONS
PAUL FOLEY revels in the coolest, most joyful piece of theatre you’ll get this summer
GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a biography of the Marxist intellectual and author, made from the point of view of his son
MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class