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Animal magic
WILL STONE is transfixed by a brilliant adaptation of a best-selling Polish eco-thriller
INDOMITABLE: Kathryn Hunter as Janina Duszejko
[Marc Brenner]
WILL STONE enjoys a set by an artist too eclectic to be pigeonholed
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry
The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead
Barbican Theatre, London
THE highly anticipated new production by renowned theatre group Complicite had a rather unfortunate false start when its press night was cancelled at the eleventh hour after lead actor Kathryn Hunter came down with a sudden illness.
Since then, Amanda Hadingue has dauntlessly stepped into what proves to be quite the Herculean role for most of the short two-week run at the Barbican... but not tonight.
The diminutive grey-haired Hunter ambles out, in character, rasping and coughing into a central mic: “Just a touch of Covid!” she jests, although the irony isn’t lost.
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