‘The Djinns of Eidgah’ brilliantly evokes the psychosocial uncertainty in current Kashmir. It is set just before Eid, when Muslims in Kashmir visit an Eidgah, an open-air enclosure reserved for Eid prayers. The play’s Eidgah is thought to be visited by Djinns, shapeshifting spirits in Islamic literature that are neither good nor evil.
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‘Going Slightly Mad’ is a compelling dissection of NHS psychiatric treatment. Michael Hajiantonis, its writer and director, based the play on his own experiences of being sectioned.
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‘Ali and Alpo’ is an intellectually exciting but emotionally disengaging piece. It appears the performers were living their story so fiercely that they had little energy left to consider the art of storytelling.
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Shôn Dale-Jones, the Artistic Director of Hoipolloi, is both the writer and sole performer of ‘The Duke’. A poetic, personal story surrounding the accidental breaking of a family heirloom.
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Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and Rufus Norris work collaboratively in ‘My Country: A Work in Progress’ to dramatize perhaps one of the most divisive issue of recent years: Brexit. […]
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Noah Brown discusses how the right wing has gained traction and how the left are particularly clueless in attempting to prevent it.
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