Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Political theatre and the Miners’ Strike
DAWN EVANS recommends the memoir of A39, the remarkable Cornish political theatre troupe
A39
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
After The Miners’ Strike - A39 and Cornish Political Theatre Verses Thatcher’s Britain
Paul Farmer, Open Books, £23.99
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