RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Send in the Clowns with James Walsh: August 15, 2022
The Fringe, in its current form, is unsustainable as it means selling one of your more important organs to pay the greedy landlords
Charlie Vero-Martin with Mr Basketcase
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
“I’m off to clown college because it’s cheaper and more accessible to go to Paris and study with a master than to do an arts festival in my home town.”
Charlie Vero-Martin, actor, comedian, writer and improviser, is on stage with a basket with googly eyes.
He is called Mr Basketcase. It is 2am on a Monday morning.
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