MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
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Brighton revolutionaries seize the day
JOE GILL is hooked by an urgent imagined rehearsal of what attempting to overthrow capitalism might look like
Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, 1872
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MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
Unchain Me
DreamThinkSpeak
Brighton Festival
IF REVOLUTION in 2022 is anything like dreamthinkspeak’s Unchain Me, it will involve technical hiccups with tablets, waiting in the rain, and lots of flights of stairs.
In an immersive, intense plunge into a clandestine struggle against the powers that be in Brighton and Britain, groups of audience members are invited to join “the campaign” and to help overthrow the system.
Based loosely on Dostoevsky’s The Devils, the piece by Tristan Sharps (who is also Brighton Festival co-director this year) is an urgent imagined rehearsal of what attempting to overthrow capitalism might look like.
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