MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
Ambitious political satire
GORDON PARSONS applauds one of those few brave plays to confront the politics of our world head on
MESSING WITH MEDIA: David Edgar's The New Real
[Ikin Yum]
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
The New Real
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
SINCE his ground-breaking Destiny in 1976, exploring the complexities underlying the BNP surface of British fascism, there is an air of excited expectancy when David Edgar presents another of his epic dramatic analyses of the political scene.
Just as in his latest book, The Populist Right, examining the current explosion of right-wing movements throughout Europe, The New Real engages with the shift in the political tectonic plates throughout the continent.
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