Ralph Bridle’s staging of Handel’s music and Rossi’s libretto focuses on captivity, enslavement and the human cost of war.


Television Freefall: a Reckoning for Boeing Netflix


From August 19 In the wake of last year’s suicide of whistleblower John Barnett, filmmaker Rory Kennedy returns to the theme of her documentary, Downfall: the Case Against Boeing, to see how the aviation company’s approach to safety and accountability has changed since two of its 737 Max planes crashed in 2018 and 2019.


Theatre The Story


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National Theatre, London August 27–October 24 A newsroom thriller by US playwright Tracey Scott Wilson about four reporters competing to get the story of a white teacher’s murder in a black neighbourhood. This play is inspired by true cases of journalists fabricating stories.


Sylvia Curve, Leicester, and on tour September 24–November 15 Beverley Knight reprises her Olivier Award-winning turn as Emmeline Pankhurst, alongside Sharon Rose as Sylvia Pankhurst, in a musical about the pioneering feminists. The tour ends at London’s Royal Albert Hall, scene of more than 20 suffragette rallies.


Spotlight Poison pencils


Political cartoons are a speciality of Dr Helen Pierce, who lectures in art history at the University of Aberdeen. In 2008, she


published Unseemly Pictures: Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England, which looked at the use of illustration as a tool of agitation, criticism and provocation in the 17th century. She is on similar


territory in her forthcoming book, The Profaned Pencil, which tells the story of British political caricature between 1600 and 1860.


Like the earliest


writing in pamphlets and journals, the first cartoons often showed little restraint. Exploiting the immediacy of the visual image, illustrators could have a more direct impact


than their colleagues using the printed word. Pierce traces the


evolution of political caricature through changing technologies of the Georgian and Victorian eras, as politicians and members of the royal family came under the satirical microscope. On the way, caricaturists reflected the issues of the day, and tensions around class, gender or war. She looks too at how the drawings influenced dissent and the reactions of those being satirised.


The Profaned


Pencil: a History of British Political Caricature, 1600– 1860, Reaktion Books, October 1


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