MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Something of a gothic horror show
YVONNE LYSANDROU isn’t wholly impressed with the American Dream turned nightmare depicted in Buried Child
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Buried Child at Trafalgar Studios, London SW1
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EMBEDDED in ideological fictions of the rural homestead and the nuclear family, Sam Shepard’s Buried Child is a searing indictment of the mythologising tenets of the American dream.
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