JAN WOOLF invigilates images that meditate on Palestine, and the people who witness them
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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
Monochrome prisoner: Peter Hamilton Dyer in #WeAreArrested
[Ellie Merridale]
A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
JAN WOOLF is bowled over by a major retrospective for the YBA artist
LEO BOIX, ANGUS REID and MARIA DUARTE review Night Stage, Two Women, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, and Fuze
#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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