MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review The Stranger, Undertone, and Outcome
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Painfully funny
Maxine Peake is explosive as a female comic battling a violent husband and sexism in working men's clubs, says MARIA DUARTE
WILL STONE applauds the anniversary tour of Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches by Madchester icons, Shaun and Bez
JAN WOOLF invigilates images that meditate on Palestine, and the people who witness them
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
Funny Cow (15)
Directed by Adrian Shergold
THIS gritty and unrelenting drama, steering seamlessly from tragedy to comedy, charts the rise to stardom of stand-up comic Funny Cow.
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