Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Universal truths in an era of fake news
A play on the arbitrary detention of a journalist resonates beyond its Turkish context, says MAYER WAKEFIELD
PIC CAP: Monochrome prisoner: Peter Hamilton Dyer in #WeAreArrested Pic: Ellie Merridale
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
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
#WeAreArrested
Arcola Theatre, London
THE FACT that a group of “Free Julian Assange” campaigners was standing outside the Arcola Theatre on a chilly press night served to underline the relevance of the theatre's first collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
#WeAreArrested is the story of the “truly Kafkaesque” detention of newspaper editor Can Dundar (Peter Hamilton Dyer) at the behest of the Turkish government.
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