Jessie Thompson
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Ghost Of Our Fathers: Beyond The Miners’ Strike – Beth Steel Interviewed
Jessie Thompson speaks to playwright Beth Steel about moving beyond the collapse of the welfare state, representations of masculinity and moving beyond the usual themes of the Miners' Strike in her latest work, Wonderland, showing now at Hampstead Theatre. Pictures by Manuel Harlan
Books
Ghost Of Our Fathers: Beyond The Miners’ Strike – Beth Steel Interviewed
Jessie Thompson speaks to playwright Beth Steel about moving beyond the collapse of the welfare state, representations of masculinity and moving beyond the usual themes of the Miners' Strike in her latest work, Wonderland, showing now at Hampstead Theatre. Pictures by Manuel Harlan
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Nothing To Celebrate: Tradition, Ideology & Corruption In Theatre
Visiting the two currently-running plays, Jessie Thompson considers critiques of Capitalism, Conservative ideologies and the self-serving class system in Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business and Julian Mitchell's Another Country, finding them still dishearteningly relevant thirty years later
Books
Nothing To Celebrate: Tradition, Ideology & Corruption In Theatre
Visiting the two currently-running plays, Jessie Thompson considers critiques of Capitalism, Conservative ideologies and the self-serving class system in Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business and Julian Mitchell's Another Country, finding them still dishearteningly relevant thirty years later
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A Quietus Interview
You’re Not Gonna Get Yours: Chuck D Of Public Enemy Interviewed
The Quietus' favourite hip hop group are back in the charts and their debut is now 25-years-old, so we sent Stevie Chick to get a Bakers Dozen from Chuck D. The power house rapper had other ideas however... Photo by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits
A Quietus Interview
And Desire Will Come By Itself: Songhoy Blues Interviewed
The Malian four-piece formed after fleeing from the north of the country when it was taken over by Islamist militants in 2012. Three years on, they tell Richie Troughton about combining blues with their native Songhai music on debut album, Music In Exile
