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My Guardian review of Conor Mitchell's Abomination: A DUP Opera, on its transfer to this year's Brighton Festival.

A scathing attack on homophobia, hate speech and those who perpetrate it, it's in the cabaret-revue tradition of Offenbach and Weill, and is operatic satire at its very finest:-

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/10/conor-mitchell-abomination-a-dup-opera-review-theatre-royal-brighton

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Abomination: A DUP Opera review – brilliant satire skewers politicians with their own words

Anger seethes beneath the Belfast Ensemble’s waltzes in Conor Mitchell’s scathing denunciation of homophobia and hate speech

The Guardian