PETER MASON applauds the revival, 39 years later with the same team and cast, of Manfred Karge’s version of Brecht’s 100-year-old play, Mann Ist Mann
When Johann Sebastian Bach stood up to Mammon
Bach’s Debt Cantata demands that you listen not to the financiers and politicians, but to your conscience, writes DAVID YEARSLEY
Johann Sebastian Bach
New releases from Biita Houdei, The Mary Wallopers, and The Tubs
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MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds a fearless attempt to bring to the stage the 1984 toxic gas disaster in Bhopal, India
ALEX HALL applauds the account of a dogged, traumatic and punishing campaign for justice that has lasted from 1998 to the present day
NICK WRIGHT laments the political bias of an epic attempt to tell the history of the liberation of France from the Nazis, that excludes both the decisive contribution of the Soviet Red Army, and of the French communist party itself
THE Congressional Budget Office reported recently that the federal debt will overtake GDP by next year and will double to more than $33 trillion by 2030.
Debt and sin are synonymous in Christian thought and liturgy: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors” runs the Lord’s Prayer as recited by Presbyterians.
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