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Jane Clegg, Finborough Theatre
Predictable drama with feminist intimations gets classy revival
PUT UPON: Alix Dunmore (Jane) Photo Carla Evans
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a history that excavates the enormous role played by agricultural workers in recent times
ALEX HALL recommends a book that places empirical evidence at the heart of understanding racism
ORIGINALLY performed in 1913, St John Irvine’s Jane Clegg now appears to be the most conventional of plays.
Yet this straightforward tale of a woman realising her power remains an important historical document of a time when the portrayal of female characters in British drama was radically shifting in response to the suffragette movement.
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