JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Insightful reminder of society’s fragility
Abigail Weinstock (Her/Baba) and Tom Mothersdale (Him/Man)
[Helen Murray]
NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
New releases from Rosa Walton, Paul McCartney, and Aidan Thorne & Jason Ball
RON JACOBS welcomes a sharp, intelligent and witty exposé of the corruption and right-wing politics that have taken over international professional football
ALEX HALL welcomes the memoir of a prominent British academic of Ugandan/Zimbabwean heritage
JONATHAN TAYLOR reviews a collection of short stories wherein news - and the absence of news - changes lives
Love And Other Acts Of Violence
Donmar Warehouse
A YOUNG man is overzealously shouting at a woman over the noise of a house party about the scandal of inflated university vice-chancellor pay while other staff struggle on low incomes.
It’s a very current conversation, a nod to the University College Union’s (UCU) ongoing campaign, and one of the only clues that this new play by Cordelia Lynn, finely directed by Elayce Ismail, is set in modern-era Britain.
As an opening scene to an otherwise extremely dark story, it’s hilarious in its familiarity of the social awkwardness that comes with trying to speak, least of all flirt, with anyone where the music is too loud.
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