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Outstanding adaptation brings Lope de Vega's parable of social injustice bang up to date
The Village
[Johan Persson]
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
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Theatre Royal Stratford East
IN FUENTEOVEJUNA, Lope de Vegas’s classic Spanish drama of 1619, a community stands together against corruption, tyranny and abuse and April De Angelis’s dynamic blank-verse adaptation transposes the action to modern-day India.
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