Saturday Review - Dheepan, X at the Royal Court, All That Man Is, Shakespeare at Compton Verney, The Five

Dheepan, X at the Royal Court, All That Man Is, Shakespeare at Compton Verney, The Five

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French film Dheepan won the 2015 Palme d'Or, with a tale of Tamil refugees fleeing Sri Lanka and arriving in France, finding a whole new set of opportunities and problems Alistair McDowall's newest play X is set on a space station on Pluto. It opens at London's Royal Court Theatre; will our reviewers think it's out of this world? David Szalay's was named as one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists in 2013. His new novel All That Man Is looks at 9 young men in modern Europe Shakespeare In Art is an exhibition at Compton Verney looking at the many ways that artists in different disciplines have depicted the work of The Bard. The Five is a new thriller TV series where a group of friends is reunited when one of them is implicated in a murder. Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Malorie Blackman, Kerry Shale and Alice Jones. The producer is Oliver Jones.


Published on Saturday, 9th April 2016.

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