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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
Rural Welsh tragedy that remains rooted in the past
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JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
My People
Theatr Clwyd, Mold
3/5
STEFFAN DONNELLY’S skilled adaptation of Caradoc Evans’s My People has cleverly knitted 12 disparate stories from a century ago into a 2015 frame.
An impressive cast, working their socks off, play multiple characters in this fast-moving ensemble piece and the solutions which directors Donnelly and Aled Pedrick and designer Cecile Tremolieres have found to the significant demands of the script are effective, inventive and often witty.
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STEVE JOHNSON relishes a celebration of the commonality of folk music and its links with the struggles of working people the world over