KEN COCKBURN assesses the art of Ian Hamilton Finlay for the experience of warfare it incited and represents
Hit and miss
DAVID NICHOLSON samples two plays – one funny, one unfunny – that will open at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
(L) Twm Bollen-Molloy and Luke Hereford as Polly Amorous and Esther Parade; (R) Paul Jenkins in Moscow Love Story
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HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
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RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
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Moscow Love Story/Polly and Esther
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff
TWO drag acts, Polly and Esther (★★★★), trying out their material in Cardiff before they head to the Edinburgh Fringe was an absolute joyous evening at the Sherman Theatre.
Twm Bollen-Molloy and Luke Hereford are Polly Amorous and Esther Parade and the evening starts with two cloaked and darkened figures talking to each other like macabre sister witches from Macbeth.
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