EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
90 seconds to midnight
SIMON PARSONS applauds an informative show that reminds us of the need to keep the threat of nuclear destruction, accidental or intentional, in the headlines
URGENT: Chris Thorpe in A Family Business
[Andreas J. Etter]
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
A Family Business
The Tobacco Factory
AS much an illustrated lecture as a stage production, China Plate Theatre’s latest production is a timely reminder of the perilous state of an unstable world with over thirteen-and-a-half thousand nuclear weapons and the Nobel prize-winning work of ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.)
Writer and actor Chris Thorpe greets and chats to the audience before taking them on a personal trip about just what their city, Bristol, means to them and how any nuclear weapon would impact on their world. Utilising projections from NUKEMAP and recordings of the 2020 Lebanon dockside explosion, he creates a vivid impression of the potential local devastation.
His informal patter and detailed research on the state and deployment of nuclear weapons is interwoven with scenes representing the informal politicking of members of the UN including Veronique Christory played by Andrea Quirbach as the senior arms control adviser of the Red Cross delegation at the UN.
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