Verbatim play tackles radicalisation and includes interviews with Muslim teenagers from East London
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Boy, Almeida, review: ‘a nightmare vision of consumerist Britain’
Innovative production brings Leo Butler’s stark vision of 21st century London to life in Boy at the Almeida
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Green Film Festival screens a global selection of eco-cinema at the Barbican
The event is back until 8 May with an array of new independent documentary films that highlight worldwide environmental struggles
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Feral – Ulli Mattsson review: ‘urging new water through old riverbeds’
Laplander Ulli Mattsson has penned an elegiac musical tribute to her homeland
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In a Land of Paper Gods author on ‘naughty children who disappeared from history’
Rebecca Mackenzie talks about writing her debut novel, synchronicity and growing up in an evangelical environment
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Lobster Bar, Hackney Central, review: sensational crustaceans
Specialising in seafood, Lobster Bar is broadening the scope of Hackney Central’s ever burgeoning restaurant scene
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Crossing the divide – Spitalfields to see crowdfunded adaptation of Malorie Blackman classic
An extraordinary tale of social exclusion, terrorism and oppression, Noughts and Crosses has now been adapted for the stage. Its director Cheryl Walker talks about black representation and why her performers are “not just actors”
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Worth a butcher’s – Hill & Szrok restaurant review
Broadway Market meat specialists are expanding with a new pub and restaurant in Old Street
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Feline romantic – Homerton filmmaker releases debut feature Dead Cat
In the romantic comedy, a pair of old flames randomly meet at a time when both of their lives have reached an impasse
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My Neighbours the Dumplings – restaurant review
Food fanatics are flocking to sample Clapton’s newest dim sum parlour