MARIA DUARTE recommends an extraordinary film that explores an absent father’s attempt to make up to his sons
Class discrimination and the arts
VANESSA CORBY asks what will the arts do for everyday working people?
STUNNING: Jeremy Deller’s recreation of The Battle of Orgreave staged on the 17th anniversary of the battle. The 1,000-strong cast played the miners and police including ex-miners who were originally there, and large numbers from re-enactment societies from across the UK
JOHN GREEN, MARIA DUARTE and LEO BOIX review The Shepherd and the Bear, Hamlet, Twinless, and 100 Nights of Hero
GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a version set amid the violent conflicts of the 19th century west African Oyo empire before the intervention of British colonialism
GILL PARSONS introduces the remarkable process by which her childhood experience of a convalescent home has become a new drama
SEAMUS HIGGINS introduces some basic facts about the role of sugar in driving a worldwide crisis of diet-related diseases
Japanese innovation, Costa Rican skullduggery, Glasgow Central suicide, and good deeds punished in London
ON the morning of July 5, Keir Starmer and his supporters celebrated Labour’s election victory in the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern, bathed in the glow of a huge red wall behind.
Hard on the heels of the culture wars of the Conservative election campaign and its “rip-off degrees” rhetoric, this iconic start felt like stepping into a parallel universe.
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