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Smoke-filled living room
WILL STONE admires a revival of Pinter’s dark exploration of male chauvinism and sexuality
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PATRICK JONES recommends a vital anthology from Afghan and Iranian poets where the political and personal fuse into witness-bearing and manifesto-making
WILL STONE is impressed by Hania Rani who is already making a name for herself in the male-dominated world of modern classical music
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by characters so un-nuanced as to be unreal, a stereotypical plot and a conceptual vampire
WILL STONE appreciates an artist who can swerve from industrial noise to clubby trance pop without missing a step
The Homecoming
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SMOKE as thick as fog looms across a large room in a ’60s London home as free jazz blares out from an old gramophone on the floor in Moi Tran’s atmospheric set for director Matthew Dunster’s revival of The Homecoming, one of Harold Pinter’s darkest plays.
The Big Smoke it may be, but it soon becomes apparent that in this testosterone-fuelled house everyone smokes like chimneys. There are no women (yet) only bitter and broken men.
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