MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Mamet’s funny kind of sales pitch
LYNNE WALSH sees a top-drawer cast triumph in the US dramatist’s scabrous depiction of a desperate salesman on the make
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
WHO’D have imagined that an evening in the company of a set of alpha males could be so joyous?
The Playhouse revival of David Mamet’s barnstormer Glengarry Glen Ross is a belter.
From curtain up, with Stanley Townsend’s defiant Shelly Levene, we’re in safe hands in this dissection of desperate salesmen schmoozing and hustling their clients — and one another — accompanied by the torrent of abuse that’s the lingua franca of their shady business.
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JAN WOLF enjoys a British revival of the 1972 come of age farce/panto Pippin
