MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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The play is a powerful reminder of the arrogance, class hatred and professional incompetence that lead to tragedy of inimaginable scale, writes MARY CONWAY
EXCELLENT: (L to R) Thomas Wheatley, Ron Cook and Clair Lams
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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
Value Engineering
Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry
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THEATRE can serve many purposes but none so potent as when it gives public air time to the hearts and minds of people who live lives of quiet desperation.
In Value Engineering — an edited enactment of the Grenfell fire inquiry — we are called upon briefly to inhabit the souls not only of the 72 people who died or of the survivors or of the bereaved, but of all those who live at the harsh end of a careless, foolish and flawed society in which individuals at all levels shirk responsibility and play fast and loose with the welfare of others.
It’s a serious indictment of all we pretend to be.
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