MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Moshing memoirs from Shakespeare’s Bankside and the 100 Club, writes James Walsh
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
UNDER a leaden sky, an Irishwoman is grinding her crotch into the face of a US tourist. The entire theatre looks on and laughs.
But the audience at the Globe Theatre are not mocking him, not really. They’re laughing in relief, after a particularly brutal scene of domestic torture.
It’s been 19 years since the theatre was miraculously resurrected on London’s south bank. It’s a strange 16th-century anomaly — although they never brought back the nearby bear-baiting stadium — alongside chain restaurants and the rapidly extending Tate Modern.
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Although this production was in rehearsal before the playwright’s death, it allows us to pay homage to his life, suggests MARY CONWAY