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		<title>‘Wozzeck’, English National Opera – review by Julia Pascal.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 12:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McGrath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carrie Cracknell updates this 1925 German opera to modern Britain and it is a triumph. Georg Büchner&#8217;s radical 1848 fragmentary text, Woyzeck, is considered a watershed in theatre history.  The role of Woyzeck is hailed by as the first presentation of a major character who is a working class man.  It is known as the(...)]]></description>
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		<title>The Match Box – Tricycle Theatre/The Hothouse – Trafalgar Studios Transformed – review by Carole Woddis.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 22:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McGrath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank McGuinness, Harold Pinter, two giants and masters of their genre.  Both overturners of conventional beliefs.  Nothing they liked better than to put a rocket under sacred cows and blow them to the heavens.  Both humanitarians.  One Irish, one an East Ender. McGuinnes is still with us, thankfully, Pinter alas has passed into the great(...)]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Review Spring 2013 &#8211; Abse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 08:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bartholomew-Biggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norbert Hirschhorn finds much to think about and admire in Dannie Abse&#8217;s new collection &#160; Speak, Old Parrot by Dannie Abse Hutchinson Random House (London, 2013) ISBN 978-0-091-94464-3 pp 65 £15 Reviewed by Norbert Hirschhorn (www.bertzpoet.com)               His art is eccentricity, his aim             How not to hit the mark he seems to aim(...)]]></description>
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		<title>The Breadwinner – Orange Tree Theatre, London &#8211; review by Carole Woddis.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 23:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McGrath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somerset Maugham is probably a name that means little to today’s generation.  Yet, like Terence Rattigan, he was one of Britain’s most popular and leading playwrights.  Between 1907-09 he had four plays running in the West End.  By the time he stopped writing plays, in 1930, he had written 27 original and three adaptations. Today,(...)]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Review Spring 2013 &#8211; Moore &amp; Williams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 08:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bartholomew-Biggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New chapbooks by Fiona Moore and Chrissy Williams make favourable impressions on Thomas Ovans     Flying into the Bear by Chrissy Williams                                     The Only Reason for Time by Fiona Moore HappenStance 2013                                                                                                              HappenStance 2013 ISBN 978-1-905939-89-3                                                                                                 ISBN 978-1-905939-90-9 pp 32   £4                                                                                                                                                  pp 28  £4 &#160; These(...)]]></description>
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		<title>The Generation Game, a season of plays at The Yard, Hackney Wick, London &#8211; review by Carole Woddis.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McGrath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With every passing week, London seems to sprout another new theatre venue, converted from some old industrial wasteland, derelict factory or dockyard premises.  And now here’s another, new to me but apparently in its second year of operation and certainly worth checking out. The brain child of Jay Miller, a young visionary director, who has(...)]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Review Spring 2013 &#8211; Sharpe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bartholomew-Biggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kerrin P Sharpe&#8217;s new collection receives warm approval from Norbert Hirschhorn. Three Days in A Wishing Well by Kerrin P. Sharpe Victoria University Press (Wellington, New Zealand, 2012) ISBN 978-0-86473-765-6 pp 72 NZ$25 Reviewed by Norbert Hirschhorn (www.bertzpoet.com) &#160; Great Britain is blessed with poetry written in many different English dialects and voices: regional English,(...)]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Review Spring 2013 &#8211; Phillips</title>
		<link>http://londongrip.co.uk/2013/04/poetry-review-spring-2013-phillips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bartholomew-Biggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Bartholomew-Biggs enjoys an amusing (and sometimes tender) poetic “biography” by Peter Phillips   Oscar and I by Peter Phillips Ward Wood Publishing ISBN 978-1-908742-01-8 Pp 76     £8.99 In the last few years, in magazines and at readings and festivals, Peter Phillips has been introducing audiences to the “minor poet” George Meadows.  The new collection(...)]]></description>
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		<title>#aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei – Hampstead Theatre, London &#8211; review by Carole Woddis.</title>
		<link>http://londongrip.co.uk/2013/04/aiww-the-arrest-of-ai-weiwei-hampstead-theatre-london-review-by-carole-woddis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McGrath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei’s iconic face stares out of the Hampstead theatre programme.  One of the most famous profiles in western Art, he has become a symbol for the struggle for human rights and freedom of expression the world over.  Cultures seem to throw up personalities from time to time who personify their age. (...)]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Review Spring 2013 &#8211; Green &amp; Lipkin</title>
		<link>http://londongrip.co.uk/2013/04/poetry-review-spring-2013-green-lipkin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bartholomew-Biggs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translating Against the Odds: Wendy Klein discusses Yvonne Green&#8217;s new versions of Semyon Lipkin&#8217;s poetry &#160; After Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin by Yvonne Green Smith Doorstop Books ISBN 978-1-906613-38-9 100 pp  £9.95 &#160; The Russian-Jewish poet Semyon Lipkin (1911-2003), was born in Odessa and died in Peredelkino, the historic dacha colony near Moscow. He remained in(...)]]></description>
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		<title>Three Birds – Bush Theatre, London &#8211; review by Carole Woddis.</title>
		<link>http://londongrip.co.uk/2013/04/three-birds-bush-theatre-london-review-by-carole-woddis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McGrath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janice Okoh’s Three Birds, which won the prestigious Bruntwood playwriting prize for 2011, was warmly praised by Simon Stephens, one of this country’s foremost playwrights and Chair of the judges for the award. I’d like to say that I could see why.  But Okoh’s play, premiered at Manchester’s Royal Exchange who initiated the Bruntwood scheme(...)]]></description>
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		<title>Whitstable Comedy Club. Review by Fiona Sinclair.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen McGrath</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a Thursday evening in April teeth chattering with the cold I made my way to the Whitstable Comedy Club located on the harbour’s East Key.  This is surely one of the most unusual comedy venues, set in The Lobster Shack, an eccentric building  that is part bar, part sea food restaurant and  part comedy(...)]]></description>
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