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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
Terrible triumph of ‘man who became death’
Gordon Parsons recommends a new play on the rise and fall of J Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bomb
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
Oppenheimer at The Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
5/5
J Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” is reputed to have reacted to a 1960s play on his life by complaining that the writer had made a tragedy out of a “damned farce.”
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