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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
Rituals of fantasy and nostalgia still disturb
Katherine M Graham reviews Ghost from a Perfect Place
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
Ghost from a Perfect Place, Arcola Theatre, London E8
4/5
Travis Flood, ’60s gangster, returns to the East End in London he once controlled. On the look out for sex, Flood rediscovers his past in the form of Torchie Sparks, whose family cinema Flood “protected” back in the “heydays.”
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