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Allan Radcliffe

Edinburgh

Freelance Writer and Theatre Critic at The Times

Writer & critic 🏳️‍🌈 He/Him. Debut novel The Old Haunts shortlisted for McKitterick Prize & Longlisted for Saltire First Book Award 2024 https://t.co/QOmnJn7zUL

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  • 1 day ago | thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe

    When Katori Hall’s dramatic reimagining of Martin Luther King Jr’s last night on earth premiered in London in 2009, it was against the backdrop of the US having recently elected its first African-American president. Spool forward to 2025, and the play’s rallying cry of passing the baton of the civil rights movement from one generation to the next looks an altogether bleaker prospect in the context of a bitter culture war on “wokeness” and the terrible footage of the murder of George Floyd.

  • 2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe

  • 3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe

    Tales of British mining communities threatened by pit closures are familiar from hit films such as Brassed Off andBilly Elliot. Martin Green's Keli is in some ways the next chapter in that story. Written and with music by Green (the accordionist from the folk band Lau), the show, which had its premiere at the Royal Lyceum, is set in the recent past in a depressed former mining town halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

  • Feb 18, 2025 | thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe

  • Jan 23, 2025 | thetimes.com | Allan Radcliffe

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