EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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First time as tragedy, second time as farce in Germany
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
I LOOK with shock and sadness at the pictures of far-right hooligans rioting under the huge bust of Karl Marx in the German city of Chemnitz, having charged through the streets shouting fascist slogans and hunting down people who look foreign in a ghastly echo from history.
All this in response to the stabbing of a Cuban-German – who apparently loathed fascists – by a refugee from Iraq.
It was a squabble between people of various nationalities, weaponised by the far right as they play on the sense of alienation, impoverishment and hopelessness felt not just in Chemnitz but many cities and towns in the former GDR. And all this nearly 30 years after they were — to paraphrase all the cliches of our age — liberated from a brutal and oppressive Stasi regime and joined with their brothers and sisters in a free, united Germany.
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