JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology
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A target sadly missed
LYNNE WALSH sees form suffocate all-important content in a groundbreaking 1928 play
EXTRAORDINARILY TALENTED: Rosie Sheehy (Young Woman) supported by Daniel Bowerbank (Prisoner)
[Manuel Harlan]
MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones
JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system
MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star
MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
Machinal
The Old Vic, London
WRITER Sophie Treadwell created plays with a female audience in mind, and did a grand job with this piece, first staged in 1928.
The crying shame is that the production, nearly a century later, does not serve its central theme well enough.
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