programme ranges from violinist Charlie Lovell-Jones playing the work of LGBTQ+ composers through history to Sir Ian McKellen joining a Baroque Ball and the London Symphony Orchestra playing Michael Tilson Thomas and Maurice Ravel.


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Theatr Clwyd, Mold June 6–July 4 Minerva, Chichester July 18 –August 15 A veteran of Greenham Common faces the loss of her house on the Welsh coast due to rising sea water. Can her old-school crusading spirit save the planet? Emily White’s play is described as tender, urgent and darkly funny.


A Fine Idea Arcola Theatre, London June 10–July 4 Playwright Christine Bacon asks how eight billionaires have as much wealth as the poorest 50% on the planet. President Truman introduced ‘international development’ in 1950 – why has inequality only got worse?


The Cramlington Train Wreckers On tour July 8–12 This play by NUJ member Ed Waugh tells of 1926 General Strike, focusing on the eight Northumberland miners who derailed the Flying Scotsman. The men will also be commemorated at a Northumberland Miners’ Picnic on June 13 at Woodhorn Museum.


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Spotlight 250 years of the US


At a time when the world is recalibrating its relationship with the US, it might seem strange for a festival to be putting the states in the limelight. It is, however, for this very reason that Nicola Benedetti, the gifted violinist and artistic director of the Edinburgh International Festival, chose to make America central to her 2026 programme. Marking 250 years


since the Declaration of Independence, the programme looks at the good and the bad that has come out of that nation. It includes All


Rise, an epic symphonic work by Wynton Marsalis, as well as visits from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Ballet. Then, turning to a


shameful passage in the country’s history, the Legacy Museum presents an hour-long event called The Legacy of Slavery. Reminding us of the UK’s complicity in the


exploitation of human beings, it explores abduction, trafficking and trading, as well as the cruel philosophy that underpinned those actions. Founded by the


Equal Justice Initiative, the Alabama museum offers an immersive retelling of America’s history of racial injustice. Its first international


exhibition recounts the story of millions of enslaved Africans and exposes the myth of racial hierarchy, leading to lynching, segregation and the racism of today.


The Legacy of


Slavery, Playfair Library, Edinburgh, 8–30 August


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