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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Womb war
The Oresteia is a Greek tragedy with thought-provoking insights into the male struggle over paternity rights with women, says MARY ADOSSIDES
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
The Oresteia at Globe Theatre, London SE1
4/5
A BLOODY cycle of familial revenge drives Aeschylus’s great trilogy of plays with the uneasy, and at times antagonistic, relationship between divine and civic law — as it is in much Greek tragedy.
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The Odyssey is a tale of evasions and half-truths; this reflects the effects of traumatic ‘moral injury’ common to war veterans, suggests STEPHAN BLUM
KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
ANGUS REID applauds the potential of an ambitious show about Gaza, and encourages it to keep its nerve
WILL STONE is impressed by a tour de force rendition of three decades’ worth of orchestral chamber pop