DENNIS BROE surveys the offerings made at Series Mania Festival
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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]
SCOTT ALSWORTH assesses the follow up to Disco Elysium, the first-ever genuinely Marxist videogame
GEORGE FOGARTY wallows in a celebration of music as a community practice
RITA DI SANTO listens out for the undertow of political film-making at this year’s festival
This year’s Venice Biennale marks a major shift in European cultural politics suggests CLARE CAROLIN
ANGUS REID applauds the potential of an ambitious show about Gaza, and encourages it to keep its nerve
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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