Belvoir St Theatre, April 6 5.5/10 Cunningly marketed as the season of goodwill, Christmas is more commonly the gala event on the family feud calendar. The joys of this have been depicted on stage before, notably in Jon Robin Baitz’s ruthlessly funny Other Desert Cities. Kit Brookman’s The Great Fire…
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Eternity Playhouse, April 5 7.5/10 Playwright Patricia Cornelius has had the courage to say what our cowardly wowser politicians have not: violence is only tangentially an alcohol issue. More fundamental is a culture of male aggression. For proof look at countries in northern Europe and Scandinavia where excessive alcohol is…
Sonny Sharrock: ASK THE AGES (MOD/Planet), 10/10 Blue Buddha: BLUE BUDDHA (Tzadik) 9.5/10 Darius Jones Quartet: LE BEBE DE BRIGITTE (AUM/Fuse), 8/10 Veryan Weston/Trevor Watts: DIALOGUES FOR ORNETTE! (FMR) 8.5/10 It was the glass in the face that jazz had to have. The idiom could have rested on the laurels…