EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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Monstrous victim of abuse and poor script
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
Medusa
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds/Touring
THE REFRAMING of Medusa as the victim of sexual abuse at the hands of a powerful man is extremely timely, given the ongoing fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
Rather than being the monster of mythology, Helen Mort has developed her into “a woman who exacts her revenge on the men that destroyed her and the gods that cursed her.”
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