RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
Mixed blessings in Phoenix commemoration of Windrush arrival
Unwelcome message: Windrush
[Brian Slater]
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
Phoenix Dance Theatre: Mixed Programme
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds/Touring
PHOENIX Dance Theatre’s latest mixed programme comes with much anticipation for new piece Windrush: Movement of the People.
A commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush's arrival in Britain with emigrants from the Caribbean, it headlines a bill that opens with Aletta Collins’s Maybe Yes Maybe, Maybe No Maybe.
Created in 2009, the company favourite turns the voices of five dancers into a bold electronic soundtrack. Wittily blending beats with movement, the action is framed within a shifting circle of light in the centre of which dangles a solitary microphone.
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