A vivid parable personalising the cost of years of conflict. Had he not been killed by a car bomb in 1972, aged just 36, Palestinian intellectual and activist Ghassan Kanafani would have been an octogenarian. What would the highly-respected writer of the novella…
Smile Upon Us, Lord ★★★★
Julius Caesar ★★★★
Rothschild and Sons ★★★
The Birthday Party ★★★★
Cry, Blueberry ★★★★
East ★★★★
Berkoff’s dark exuberant hymn to London’s East End has lost none of its transgressive power. East first shocked and delighted audiences in 1975 and in Jessica Lazar’s production for Atticist Theatre it has lost none of its power. Her five actors relish Berkoff’s marriage of precisely choreographed physical theatre…
Another year, another phenomenal Limmud Festival
JR Tours: Janet Abrams reports from a thought-provoking trip to Ethiopia
The Tin Drum ★★★★
Günter Grass's transgressive Peter Pan, refusing to grow up in 20th-century Europe, proves equally disturbing in Kneehigh's new musical. It’s an odyssey through the first half of the 20th century, an unreliable memoir and a very personal state-of-the-(German) nation allegory – and that's just Günter Grass's epic novel. Now Kneehigh Theatre’s powerhouse









