GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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LYNNE WALSH is spell-bound by a production of Beckett’s classic that weaves the big themes of alienation into the warp and weft of humour and friendship
POST-TRAUMA SCENARIO: Ben Whishaw (Vladimir), Lucian Msamat Estragon)i. Tom Edden (Lucky) and Jonathan Slinger (Pozzo) in Waiting for Godot
[Marc Brenner]
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
Waiting for Godot
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
IS this really a play in which nothing happens — twice, as so many critics have claimed?
Is it all nihilistic gloom, or is there a tale of comradeship against the odds?
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