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MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
New Dawn Fades City Varieties, Leeds/Touring
JOY Division are as synonymous with Manchester as rain and Coronation Street. So it makes sense for any play about the influential band to feature the city as a secondary character.
But in New Dawn Fades writer Brian Gorman pays more attention to it than to the legendary outfit, dedicating more time to to local luminaries Friedrich Engels, John Dee and Roman general Julius Agricola in the first act than to the group.
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