EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
Gender-bending night a comic treat in Bristol
Frenetically funny: Guy Hughes and Dawn Sievewright
[Mihaela Bodlovic]
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Twelfth Night
Bristol Old Vic
WITH gender politics rarely out of the news, this highly topical exploration of Shakespeare’s play is set in a hippy, psychedelic house party where revellers extend their stay when they find a copy of Twelfth Night and decide to perform it.
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