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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
Theatre review: Little Revolution at the Almeida Theatre
A well-intentioned play on the 2011 riots sheds little light among all the heat, says GILLIAN PIGGOTT
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
Rating: 2/5
If any event in our recent history requires urgent political analysis, then the August 2011 riots do.
They are the focus of Alecky Blythe’s new play and her approach to theatre — verbatim recordings of events, the voices of bystanders and local residents edited together into a script — ought to prove thought-provoking and revelatory in relation to the shameful events of three summers ago.
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