MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Arts round-up 2014
Star critics Peter Lindley, Susan Darlington and Paul Foley on the dance, music and theatre that’s impressed this year
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
Dance: Peter Lindley
Disbelief greeted the news that Sylvie Guillem would retire next year after a final world tour but it was already known in June that her legendary performance of Push with Russell Maliphant and the truly amazing Two at London’s Coliseum theatre were to be her last ever revival of these brilliant contemporary works.
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MATTHEW HAWKINS checks out the centenary performance of Rambert Dance Company
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
WILL STONE enjoys a set by an artist too eclectic to be pigeonholed
DAVID NICHOLSON is thrilled – and shocked – by an opera that seethes and sizzles with passion and the depraved use of power