Reuben Bard-Rosenberg reviews Chanukah Lewinsky: 120 Years from Grodno Last week, a sell-out crowd at JW3 in London was treated to an unusual performance by up-and-coming performance artist... Continue reading
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Luna Williams considers the implications of Brexit for the theatre industry, and particularly its lack of working class representation. With Brexit day (29th March, 2019) just around... Continue reading
There will be a performance of “Burning Books” at Quorn Grange Hotel, Loughborough, Leics., on 23rd November. Jess Green’s most recent story of protest, teaching and what... Continue reading
Ed Edwards contributes an essay on the political background to his brilliant new play, after a short review by Mike Quille. The Review: An outstanding dramatisation of... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell outlines a Marxist reading of Shakespeare, and illustrates it with an analysis of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Among Marxism’s core insights is that all history since the... Continue reading
Ross Bradshaw reviews a recent play at the Nottingham Playhouse about the 1984 Miners’ Strike. Wonderland, written by Beth Steel, was the first play of the new artistic... Continue reading
Chris Jury tells us why he can’t stand Shakespeare. I don’t like Shakespeare. There, I’ve said it. Said the unsayable. A man who claims to be literate,... Continue reading
In a tribute to Russia’s theatrical experimenters, for whom the Revolution promised a new world of artistic possibilities, Amy Skinner presents a brief history of an art... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell discusses the prophetic politics of the Gravedigger scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which class-based justice and fundamental human equality are discussed by those whose task it... Continue reading
Doug Nicholls introduces a great new collection of political plays. Trade union struggles over the years have inspired some of our greatest playwrights. They have also inspired... Continue reading
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