Juno and the Paycock
National Theatre, London
Hamlet
Barbican, London
arts
Contrasting styles in two turbulent revivals
By Aleks Sierz /Sunday, December 11th, 2011London’s burning in a riot of their own
By Cary Gee /Saturday, December 10th, 2011The Riots
Tricycle Theatre
The key issues – if not the key players – for the party are the same now as then
By Paul Anderson /Saturday, December 10th, 2011A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999 by Chris Mullin
Profile, £20
Clang, clang go jail guitar doors
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, November 28th, 2011Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v the USA by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Crossroads Books, £11.99
A window opens on urban life
By Aleks Sierz /Monday, November 28th, 2011The Westbridge
Royal Court Theatre Local, London
Ex
Soho Theatre, London
Examining the Great Tradition of the English novel and the Wizard of Boz
By Robert Giddings /Sunday, November 27th, 2011Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Viking, £30
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Belknap Press, £30
The Dickens Bicentenary 1812-2012 by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
Trespasssers should be prosecuted
By Patrick Mulcahy /Sunday, November 27th, 2011Trespass
Director: Joel Schumacher
50/50
Director: Jonathan Levine
Treasures from the Silver mine
By Geoffrey Goodman /Saturday, November 26th, 2011Dateline Jerusalem: Reporting the Middle East 1967-2008 by Eric Silver
Revel Barker Publishing, £15.99
The rise and fall of New Labour
By Cary Gee /Saturday, November 26th, 2011A Walk on Part
Soho Theatre, London
Doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past – why history matters
By Edward Pearce /Monday, November 14th, 2011A survey by the Historical Association into the teaching of history in schools revealed that three out of 10 students at comprehensives give up history at age 13, the point at which it falls out of the core curriculum. Even at the feeble level of GCSE, only 30 per cent of pupils take the paper.