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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
ARTS ROUND-UP 2013 - part 4
Star critics recall events in the arts they were most impressed by in the last 12 months - take 4
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
PERFORMANCE
Three very different tragedies were my theatrical highlights this year - Nicholas Hytner's production of Othello, set in a military base in Cyprus, Ibsen's Ghosts directed by Richard Eyre, and Michael Grandage's staging of The Cripple Of Innishmaan, Martin McDonagh's 1997 play.
There are many different types of tragedy, from Aristotle's categorisation of its essential elements being pity, fear, catharsis and the tragic individual to Raymond Williams's definition of its liberal and modern manifestations.
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DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
JAN WOOLF is beguiled by the tempting notion that Freud psychoanalysed Hitler in a comedy that explores the vulnerability of a damaged individual