The Arts Review​

Patrick Ryan, Denis Conway, Andrew McCarthy, Marcus Lamb, Charlene McKenna, Rory Nolan in The Crucible. Image, SoundOfPhotography *** Premiering in 1953, Arthur Miller's classic, The Crucible , interrogates events other than those it depicts. Reimagining the Salem Witch Trials, 1692 to 1693, to interrogate the McCarthy era witch hunt for alleged communists in America. Seven decades later it could be seen to interpret another America. Where a misrule of law is used to delude p

Darragh Gilhooly and Ruarai Lenaghan in The Anatomy of Burke and Hare. Image, incredited ** When it comes to The Anatomy of Burke and Hare by Darragh Gilhooly , the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray. Which describes not just the downfall of serial killers William Hare and William Burke, but the problems of a troubled production. Its tale of two Irish emigrants who terrorised Edinburgh in 1828 to provide cadavers to paying surgeons going over the top in all the w

Philippa Dunne, Ayesha Antoine, Stephen Brennan, Kae Alexander and Rowan Finken in Eureka Day. Photograph: Helen Murray **** To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, you can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time. Not that the board of California’s Eureka Day Private School don’t try. Woke inclusivity, cultural sensitivity, social justice and a host of appropriate hashtags you never even knew about are