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 29
Sean Scully's Backcloth
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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 EXHIBITION
Sean Scully
Until May 28
Hatton Gallery
King's Road
Laing Art Gallery
New Bridge Street
This major retrospective of work by Sean Scully, renowned as the master of post-minimalist abstraction, revisits two seminal sites in his career — Newcastle, where he studed painting at the university, and Liverpool. On show in two galleries are works demonstrating the confidence of Scully’s earlier works and his continued fascination with stripes and the spaces in between.
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LONDON DANCE
Balletboyz: 14 Days
Sadler's Wells
Rosebery Avenue, EC1
April 26-28
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