EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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Soft-focus slant on capitalist corruption
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
WITH its depiction of corporate greed, there was outrage when Turcaret was first staged in 1709, eventually leading to Alain-Rene Lesage’s satire being pulled after only seven performances.
Now adapted by Blake Morrison for Northern Broadsides, and renamed For Love or Money, it’s a much cosier affair.
Relocated from pre-revolutionary France to a small village in Yorkshire in the 1920s, it’s a gently humorous indictment of capitalist corruption which, while it won’t rock the Establishment in the way of the original, has themes that are still relevant.
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