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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
Rising to the challenge
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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
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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
Rise Up
Touring
5/5
OFTEN theatre in education lacks a sharp edge but Lisa Evans’s new play Rise Up cuts like a knife.
Detailing the story of the Freedom Riders, who risked their lives to fight the Jim Crow laws that segregated the US South in the 1960s, this play rides the full gamut of emotions, while managing to connect the past and the present with very few bumps in the road.
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GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class
PETER MASON applauds a stage version of Le Carre’s novel that questions what ordinary people have to gain from high-level governmental spying
GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship