Augusto Boal is a pioneering Brazilian director and playwright who founded the Theatre of the Oppressed, a form of theatre that encourages the audience to be an active participant in the drama.
It is December 2009. The American Empire's disastrous "war on terror" continues to fuel new terrorist attacks and in the name of "homeland security". The US itself is now under effective martial law.
Honeydripper is set in Alabama in the 1950s and stars Danny Glover. The film is a comic drama about a juke joint run by Tyrone Purvis during the beginnings of the rock and roll era.
The Nobel prize for literature winner Harold Pinter’s first full-length play returns to the theatre it made its debut at 50 years ago.
Meaghan Delahunt’s second novel is about the coming together of three very different characters in India.
John Pilger recently edited a book of articles by investigative journalists including Martha Gellhorn, Robert Fisk, Seymour Hersh and Paul Foot, written over recent decades.
Art in The Age of Steam is an exhibition at the Walker Gallery in Liverpool that shows the various ways in which steam train travel has captured the imagination of artists, from its early days in the 19th century through to its decline in the 1960s.
All Power to the Imagination: 1968 and its legacies
Anyone angry at the media’s constant attacks on asylum seekers will enjoy Banner Theatre Company’s latest production.
David Low was arguably the greatest newspaper cartoonist of the 20th century. From the 1920s until his death in 1963 his work appeared in London’s Evening Standard, and later the Guardian.
In the mid-1960s Memphis was with Detroit at the centre of the burgeoning soul scene.
What do You Want? is a collection of work from five female artists living in India and working among a new politically aware generation of artists.
