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Günter Grass and the German neurosis
19 Apr 2012
Maciej Zurowski looks at a literary scandal and the bourgeoisie's attempt to cope with its past
World Cup chauvinism
18 Jun 1998
Rioting England fans have set back Labour’s ‘Cool Britannia’ project
Hatching a conspiracy
11 Jun 1998
Every Sunday until June 28 there is an explosive happening of music, poetry, film and performance at the Battersea Arts Centre running under the title ‘Conspiracy’. But, say its organisers, this is only the beginning. They want to create a new counter-culture, a theatre fit for the 21st century. Jack Conrad spoke to one of its founders and main movers Tam Dean Burn
Theatre of dissent
04 Jun 1998
Jack Conrad reviews 'Seeing Red - part two', May 26 - June 14, Battersea Arts Centre, directors Lisa Goldman and Deborah Bruce
Profiting from crime
28 May 1998
Reviving the political
07 May 1998
‘Seeing red’ is a festival of new political plays sponsored and produced by the multi-award winning Red Room. It brings together 16 of the most interesting and thought-provoking voices in British theatre, among them Peter Barnes, Kay Adshead, Judy Upton and Roddy McDevitt. Marking the 30th anniversary of the revolutionary situation in France and the 1st anniversary of the New Labour government, the season is designed to bring the political back into theatre. Jack Conrad spoke to Lisa Goldman, the Red Room’s artistic director
State attacks right to think
07 May 1998
There is a hidden agenda of censorship behind the chorus of outrage over the Mary Bell biography
Blair touts for business
02 Apr 1998
The de-Labourisation of Labour continues
Love hurts
19 Feb 1998
Kirby Dick ‘Sick: the life and death of Bob Flanagan, supermasochist’ 1997, ICA and selected cinemas
Universal lessons
13 Nov 1997
Nick Clarke reviews Bill Findlay's 'The Weavers' (from the original by Gerhart Hauptmann)
When the fat lady sings
13 Nov 1997
English National Opera
Power and profundity
06 Nov 1997
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
Brief encounters
11 Sep 1997
Tom Ball reviews 'The censor' by Anthony Neilson (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, West Street, London WC2 to September 27)
You don’t play in clubs
11 Sep 1997
Phillip Watson reviews 'Free jazz: a collective improvisation' (Ornette Coleman Double Quartet, Atlantic CD)
What the papers say
11 Sep 1997
‘One day I’ll hav a proper job’
26 Jun 1997
Danny Hammill reviews 'School’s out: poems for school' by Benjamin Zephaniah (AK Press 1997, pp56, £3.95)