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Saboteur Awards Festival 2020: How it looks this year

September 6, 2019September 9, 2019 Charley

Dear Readers, I’m delighted to announce that next week, on Friday, September 13, the Sabotage Reviews inbox will open for

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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Literary Festival

May 8, 2019May 10, 2019 Charley

It’s the first year that the Saboteur Awards Festival has been able to include a literary festival category, and we’re

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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Reviewer of Literature

May 7, 2019May 10, 2019 Charley

An important part of the independent literature scene are the reviewers who help to shine a light on brilliant publications,

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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Novella

May 7, 2019May 10, 2019 Charley

We have a wonderful selection of novellas that have been shortlisted for this year’s Saboteur Awards Festival. You can cast

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Funkenteleky Verve Special (The Old Rep, Birmingham, 17 Feb 2019)

April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 Charley

Reviewed by Jonah Corren ‘Funken.. what? Funkenwha? Is it a typo? Funfksjsdksrd?! Seriously? That’s not a word. Funke..Fun…ke? Funkenteleky!’ On

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Saboteur Awards Festival 2019 – Programme details!

April 13, 2019April 25, 2019 Charley

After a week of counting votes and sending emails, we’ve finally been able to turn our attention from shortlists to

Bohdan Piasecki standing in front of a blue and yellow Hit the Ode display

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Hit the Ode x UniSlam Party (The Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome, 1 Feb 2019)

February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 Charley Birmingham, Hit the Ode, literature event, Live Literature, live poetry, performance poetry, Spoken Word, UniSlam

reviewed by Hannah Ledlie Hit the Ode was launched a decade ago in The Victoria, a popular pub in Birmingham city

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Sphere (Are We Where We Are?, Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 8 Nov 2018)

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 Sally Jack Amy Kakoura, Are We Where We Are, Ashley James Brown, Coventry, Kimisha LewisDemi Oyediran, Laura Nyahuye, Ola Animashawun, Raef Boylan, Shop Front Theatre, Stella Backhouse

reviewed by Stella Backhouse According to Roland Barthes (in a quote I can’t seem to locate, but it sounds like

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Are We Where We Are #7/8, (Stephanie Ridings and Cristina Catalina, Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 11 October 2018)

October 16, 2018October 18, 2018 Sally Jack Are We Where We Are, Coventry, Cristina Catalina, Don't Cry For Me, Shop Front Theatre, Stella Backhouse, Stephanie Ridings, The Things We Tell Ourselves

review by Stella Backhouse According to a recent survey by pollsters ORB International, “people are disgruntled with the protracted Brexit

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Rear View (IOU Theatre, Festival of Imagineers, Coventry, 21 September 2018)

September 27, 2018September 27, 2018 Sally Jack Cecilia Knapp, Coventry, Festival of Imagineers, IOU Theatre, Rear View, Stella Backhouse

review by Stella Backhouse Alarm bells started ringing when Cecilia Knapp unexpectedly began to speak. “I am sixty-five years old,”