MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Stirring revival of a doleful 1930s polemic
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PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
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CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
Love on the Dole
Various venues, Salford
5/5
THIS promenade production in five different locations — three of them in an unseasonal but appropriate Salford downpour — opens in an old Salford mill.
What follows is a first-class interpretation of Walter Greenwood’s classic account of a community blighted by unemployment in the 1930s.
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