arts
Hidden Now Heard Storiel Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor Until 5 November An exhibition to prick the interest of any journalist, this project captures a hidden and often painful part of Wales’ history. Focused on the stories of former staff and patients from six long-stay hospitals, it allows the public to glimpse what it was like to grow up and spend up to 40 years living in an institution. It has been interpreted using oral history interviews, recreating parts of the hospital and displaying historical documents, images and artefacts donated by staff and patients.
http://tinyurl.com/zbzz6mw
COMEDY
Shappi Khorsandi Oh My Country: from Morris dancing to Morrissey
On tour nationally until 17 December Shappi Khorsandi is hitting the road with a new show to reclaim patriotism 40 years after she arrived in the UK. Born in Tehran, she was brought up in London after her family fled Iran following the Islamic Revolution because her satirist father, Hadi, had criticised the Ayatollah. She made her name with her first tour, Asylum Speaker, and has since appeared on TV and radio shows, including Mock the Week, Have I Got News For You?, Just a Minute, The Now Show. LIve at the Apollo and the News Quiz.
www.shappi.co.uk
V Spotlight Idealism and despair in the Spanish Civil War
Nearly a century on, the Spanish Civil War still resonates strongly with journalists and trade unionists. From Hemingway
and Orwell to Loach and Lee via Gellhorn and Capa, the sacrifices made by British workers volunteering to fight the fascists retain the capacity
to inspire and impress. The latest in a long line
of artists to commemorate the bravery of the International Brigades in Spain is playwright Neil Gore, whose play Dare Devil Rides to Jarama is touring England until December. This tells the extraordinary story of speedway star Clem “Dare
Devil” Beckett, who felt his place was with Spanish people defending freedom and democracy against Franco’s rising fascist armies. Commissioned by the
International Brigades Memorial Trust and supported by several trade unions, the play captures the raw passions and
emotions of idealism and despair, hope and anger, determination and fear through powerful storytelling, stirring songs, poetry and puppetry.
Touring until 3 December
www.townsend
productions.org.uk
Book review
Just another day of gun crime in the US He also takes on the issue of gun
Author, broadcaster and Guardian journalist Gary Younge has recently returned to the UK after four years living in the US. To get under the skin of American
politics, he travelled by Greyhound bus through the former Confederate states to retrace the route of the Freedom Riders of the 1960s; interviewed Angela Davis, Joan Baez and Clarence Jones, a speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr to re-examine the significance of King’s “I have a dream” speech; and made use of his own identity as a black man in a predominantly white society to explore what this means for all of us, whether we are from Stevenage or Dixie.
FILM
The Girl on a Train Released 5 October by Entertainment One Everywhere I know, you know, we all know this film is going to mirror the success of the novel and be huge, but did you know the author, Paula Hawkins, was a journalist for 15 years? Not only that, but so was her
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crime in America. Picking a random date – Saturday 23 November 2013 – he follows up the reports of the 10 young people killed on that day. We learn about the 11 year old shot while on a sleepover in Michigan and the 18 year old gang member killed in Chicago. He talks to their friends and families. Each one gets a chapter in the book. White, black and Latino – none had their story told in the mainstream press. There is already talk of a film based on the book. But don’t wait. These stories need to be heard. Another Day in the Death of America, by Gary Younge, £16.99
best-seller about domestic violence, alcohol and drug misuse. Everyone’s going to be talking about it, so you might as well go along and see it.
MUSICAL The Commitments Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin 12-19 October This tale of a group of young people who form a soul band has been described to me as one of the most essentially Dublin stories ever told. Written by the city’s Roddy Doyle, it sparked a film adaptation by Alan Parker and a musical that had a record-breaking West End run. Here’s a chance to see it in its home setting.
http://bordgaisenergytheatre.ie
(hardback) , is published by Guardian Faber Publishing. Review by Andrea Butcher
DANCE A Linha Curva, Tomorrow and Transfigured Night Touring the UK until March 2017 Britain’s flagship contemporary dance company, Rambert, embarks on a tour to showcase its three latest works. A Linha Curva is the troupe’s party piece, a riotous explosion of sexy, colourful samba- fuelled dance featuring 28 performers, a mass bank of precision and dramatic lighting, Tomorrow is an interpretation of Macbeth and Transfigured Night sees two lovers meet by moonlight, unaware a dark secret threatens to tear them apart.
www.rambert.org.uk
MUSIC Chris T-T, Love Me, I’m A Liberal tour Touring until December 2016 Writer and music maker Chris T-T is one of the UK’s most consistently praised underground artists. Active since 1997, he has made 10 solo albums, including influential political protest record 9 Red Songs in 2005 and, most recently, a similarly radical follow-up, 9 Green Songs, released in June this year. If you go along – and you should because he’s great – listen out for his song about journalists: Uh … The Press (for Paul Dacre).
https://christt.com/live/
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