It’s Ireland 1958 and a young IRA man is sentenced to death by the British. The IRA reply by taking a British soldier hostage and bringing him to a squalid Dublin boarding house.
A classic by the brilliant Irish playwright Brian Behan. It is still as powerful and controversial as when it was first performed.
Southwark Playhouse, London
3- 20 February
Interviews with RAR organisers 50 years on
Hadestown is a damning condemnation of capitalism
Exhibition seems to revel in making histories and events obscure
Artist Mike warns, 'This is what you’ll lose'
