GORDON PARSONS applauds a marvellous story of human ingenuity and youthful determination, well served by a large and talented company
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MATTHEW HAWKINS savours the memoir of growing up in the slums of Glasgow in the 1970s and '80s
SUSAN DARLINGTON applauds bold choices that force the audience to re-examine a familiar comedy
PETER MASON relishes a quirky and highly entertaining take on Shakespeare’s tragicomedy
New releases from Bill Callahan, The Delines, and Beck
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Slum Boy: a portrait
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Brazen, £20
INSTEAD of struggling to write sentences with lots of adjectives as his teacher has decreed, a tiny child with scant schooling plays with a pair of craft scissors.
He cuts a long slit up the outside of his trousers and is absorbed by the miracle of his revealed leg. Happening upon on this, his teacher is horrified and shouty. She demands to know why he has done this bit of sartorial damage and she threatens him with punishment if he cannot explain himself. His expression of bafflement seems like the right way of joining in.
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