CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Virgin and Child by Maggie Hamand
Gripping novel of intersex Pope pregnant with transgressive tensions
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
MAGGIE HAMAND'S Virgin and Child describes a brutal war zone of shifting battle lines, a clash between theoretical theologising reflecting papal power and prerogative and the messy truths of personal experience.
ACUTELY TUNED EAR: Maggie Hamand (Photo Barbican Press)
In her novel, Pope Patrick is the first Irish-born incumbent of the Roman Catholic church. A pretty mainstream pontiff, he is nevertheless already raising the hackles of the hardcore reactionaries within the hierarchy.
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