MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
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Arts ahead: March 26
The Last Ship
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MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE/TOURING
The Last Ship
Newcastle Playhouse
Barras Bridge
Until April 7
"It's a strange kind of beauty,/it's cold and austere,/And whatever it was that you've done to be here,/It's the sum of your hopes." Thus Sting, who wrote the music and lyrics for this Northern Stage "political and passionate musical" (book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey).
The Last Ship tells the story of a shipbuilding town and its people, in which a sailor comes back from sea to discover the shipbuilding life he left behind in chaos. The yard is closing and no-one knows what will come next.
With the engine fired and pistons in motion, picket lines are drawn as the community braces itself in the face the gathering storm. Should be well worth checking out, either in Newcastle or during the national tour which follows.
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