Adrian Dunbar on staging TS Eliot’s The Waste Land: ‘It’s the first major poem of the jazz age’
An intriguing combination of the Irish actor, the American poet and the composer Nick Roth is the headline event of EFG London Jazz Festival 2025
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Adrian Dunbar on Beckett: ‘I seemed to be getting knocked around emotionally but didn’t know how he was doing it’
For Beckett: Unbound 2024, the actor has teamed up with the composer Nick Roth to stage a festival of the writer’s work in Paris and Liverpool
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Pantomimes and family shows have gone online – or even switched to a drive-in format
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James Kelman: ‘Irish writers get cushy jobs because they never challenge a single damn thing’
The Scottish novelist on being a thorn in the literary establishment’s side
Folk music is to people what pollen is to the bee
Nick Roth’s band Yurodny celebrate their 10th anniversary with a new suite ‘Wave’, coalescing traditional and modern music inspired by the jesters of Russian folklore
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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble's kids' matinee, CEO Experiment, and Yurodny
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