MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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YVONNE LYSANDROU isn’t wholly impressed with the American Dream turned nightmare depicted in Buried Child
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
Buried Child at Trafalgar Studios, London SW1
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EMBEDDED in ideological fictions of the rural homestead and the nuclear family, Sam Shepard’s Buried Child is a searing indictment of the mythologising tenets of the American dream.
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