Wednesday 16 June (7 - 8pm)

@ Lisson, 52-54 Bell St., NW1 (020.7724.2739) Tube: Edgware Rd.

Most artists have had them. If it's just to sweep your floor, stretch canvases or more elaborately to help with the actual artwork, most artists have had assistants. We often think that hired-"hands" only arrived with the large-scale work of the 20th century, but don't forget that until the 19th century the visual arts were considered a form of superior craftsmanship. Artists had studios employing numerous specialists: the-one-to-paint-clouds, he-who-could-do-hands, the-one-who-mixed-pigment, etc. Of late, we've required even more elaborate hands (even minds): someone to get a sheep in a tank, a transparent plinth erected upside down over another on Trafalgar Square, a giant clock or even re-creating your parent's home. If you need that done in this country, then Flash fave Mike Smith is your man. He is Q to the artist's Bond. And where Jake and Dinos, or Mona, have turned up with a sketch, Smith has closely translated the thing-in-the-mind into a thing-in-itself. With Making Art Work: The Mike Smith Studio recently released and speaking engagements to tell the story of how an artwork comes into being, now is the moment to get some answers about those artworks, or even find inspiration for future pieces.

NB: To book tickets call 0207.225.4875 or email events@arthappens.org. Be sure to arrive early so that you get a chance to view Angela de la Cruz's "paintings" (another artist that Mike Smith has collaborated with) and catch Fernando Ortega's first European show.

Thursday 17 June (6:45pm)

@ Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster, SW1 (020.7692.2737) Tube: St. James' Park/Westminster

Nobody likes to be homeless, let alone without a country. Need we really say more... Now various artists and organisations are highlighting this plight, whether it be for those seeking refuge for political, economic or cultural reasons, with the 7th annual Refugee Week. Though this brings strife to many, it also adds to the cultural diversity and rich tapestry of each land. For that reason perhaps, the International Rescue Committee, with Far from Home their third annual lecture, has selected a group of intellectual migrants, Brick Lane author Monica Ali links up with journalist and The Impressionist author Hari Kunzru and McSweeney's guru Dave Eggers to join the guests in the evening's talks. The part-Indian, part-English Kunzru no doubt will provide the part-Pakistani, part-English Ali with interesting questions, while the Staggering Genius Egger will add another dimension of wit and repartee. Why not drop in, and do your little bit for a more diverse but happy future.

NB: Refugee Week runs till 20/06. The Refugee Week Film Festival runs in conjunction with RW.

Thursday 17 June (8:30pm)

@ 12 Bar Club, 22-23 Denmark Place, WC2 (020.7916.6989) Tube: Tottenham Court Rd.

The Memory Band occupies a prime spot in the vanguard of a quietly burgeoning new British fashion for post-electronic, neo-folk music. Fronted by erstwhile Gorodisch knob-twiddler and sometime Leaf recording artist Stephen Cracknell, their eponymous debut album (released by Hungry Hill on 21/06) blends gentle acoustic rustica and undulating instrumental reveries with the most discrete digital daubs and even the occasional hearty campfire singalong. Their jaunty version of Arthur Russell's "This Is How We Walk On The Moon" is worth the cover price alone. Tonight's gig is a glorified album launch and the 12 Bar's bijou dimensions -- not to mention the Memory Band's extended cast (including moonlighting members of Fridge and fancied singer Polly Paulusma) -- means space will be at a premium. Arrive early if you can -- perhaps full of the spirit of Albion after an England win in the afternoon's footy fixture. Morris dancer's outfits optional.

Friday 18 June (Fri 18/06 till Mon 28/06)

@ Various locations across London

June promises saturation levels of architecture, due to the wilful coincidence of Architecture Week (a UK-wide phenomenon) and the very first London Architecture Biennale (a Clerkenwell-wide phenomenon). The Biennale's focus could be viewed as an unnecessary celebration of that fashionable area of east London, but in its defence, the director argues that the area has a history of creativity, from its origins in the print and graphic trade through to the contemporary creative industries. The programme guarantees to have something for everyone: picnics and roasts will spill out from St. John Bar & Restaurant onto a grassed-over St John street, there'll be talks by eminent figures, as well as architectural tours, discussions and exhibitions. The Biennale promises to celebrate architecture not just for the cerebral, but also for all those interested in the built environment and beyond.

With Architecture Week events piled on top of this, you'll surely be overwhelmed by the feast, so here's KF's tasty choices from both:

BIENNALE (Sat 19/06 to Mon 28/06)

Cattle Drive & Family Picnic
Sat 19/06 (10:30am - 5pm)
Go on -- you've got to go along just to see the cattle drive (for the benefit of us true urbanites, the cows will be the black and white things with milk nozzles underneath).

AJ Charette: Future Smithfield
Sat 19/06 (11am - 5pm)
Worth dropping in to see crack teams from Alsop, Vinoly, Hadid, FOA and SOM brainstorming on the Smithfield Market question: should it stay or should it go now?

Open Practices
Tue 22/06 (4pm - 8pm)
Clerkenwell's finest open their doors for the architecturally minded (and the just plain nosy). Last year AHMM were giving out free beer -- just time for a swift half before rushing off to see Zaha in action...

Zaha Hadid's Pritzker Prize Lecture
Tue 22/06 (8pm)
KF fave Zaha Hadid reveals the secrets of her long-delayed success and thanks all those who made this award possible...

Tour of Finsbury Health Centre
Fri 25/06 (6pm)
A rare chance to see arguably Britain's (and Lubetkin's) best early modernist building.

The Breakfasts
Mon 21/06 to Fri 25/06 (8:30am)
The best place for that hangover recovery, aided by a meaty breakfast, and hosted in turn by designers/critics/celebs Deyan Sudjic, Harry Handelsman, Stephen Bayley, Janet Street Porter and Peter York.


ARCHITECTURE WEEK (Fri 18/06 to Sun 27/06)

A Critic's View at The Royal Academy
Fri 18/06 (6:30 - 8:30pm)
The quality of the art at the RA's Summer Exhibition 2004 may be open to debate, but these days it's the architecture rooms that are worth seeing -- enjoy a private view from the likes of Eva Jiricna, Ted Cullinan and Piers Gough.

National Theatre "Architours"
Sat 19/06 (10 - 11am), Tue 22/06 (12:30 - 1:30pm and 3 - 4pm), Sat 26/06 (10pm - 12am)
Full behind-the-scenes tours of Lasdun's brutalist icon, with Roger Zogolvitch, Mark Foley and others; they'll also be partaking in a "Brutalist Beauty" debate on Tue 22/06.

Visionary Living
Tue 22/06 (7:30 - 9pm)
Alsop, in conversation with artist chum Bruce MacLean at Sir John Soane's Pitshanger -- expect the unexpected. Worth going, especially if you've never visited the house itself.

Sense & The City III
Fri 25/06 (6:30 - 10pm)
Last year's bash was fab, even though no excuse is needed for a party in the V&A's Pirelli Garden. Loads of events, including tours by Eva Jiricna and Eric Parry. Don't forget to bring your own CDs!

NB: The London Architecture Biennale runs from 19/06 till 28/06. Architecture Week 2004 runs from 18/06 till 27/06.

Friday 18 June (10pm - 5am)

@ The End, 16a West Central St., WC1 (020.7419.9199) Tube: Tottenham Court Rd./Holborn

More subterranean sonic bass adventures from the EYOE and Rephlex dons once again equipped with an audio artillery capable of the sickest onslaught of bendy, filthy dubstep grooves this side of grimesville. Reciting "tales from the basside" is high-grade carrier of the hyperdub virus and co-runner of dubplate, Kode 9 -- the man responsible for this year's anti-anthem, the dark and menacing, minimal, dubwise cover of Prince's "Sign o' the Times". Also taking you on an excursion into the realms of bottomless bass is Arcola rave-merchant and Texture Records main-man Darqwan aka Oris Jay. Reinforcements on the night, and destined to do damage to The End's unfeasibly large sound-system, include the Digital Mystiks, Loefah and x-rated Jamaican MC, Warrior Queen, who's collaborated with ragga/dancehall destroyer The Bug; it's sure to be an Aktion Paked night. Other MC support comes from MC Ras B, Mexican, Nika D, JSD and Goldfinger. Supplying Braindance action in the second room is DJ Rephlex Records, Aleksi Perala (aka Astrobotnia and Ovuca), D'Arcangelo, the DMX Krew and Cylob. Call it what you want -- Sublow, Dubstep, DirtyFilthyGuttural Garage -- you're guaranteed to need a shower with industrial strength oven cleaner after to scrub off that Grime.

NB: for those deep house Flashers check out Derrick Carter who plays at The End on Sat 19/06.

Saturday 19 June

@ Various cinemas across London

Beautiful and inspiring, Kim Ki-Duk's film is set in a floating Buddhist temple at the centre of a tranquil lake, amid the forested mountains of Korea. The Zen-like story mirrors the cyclical seasons. An elderly monk is caring for a young boy, teaching him how to respect nature. The young apprentice learns a harsh lesson when his master catches him tying stones around a fish, a frog and a snake, and tells him that if the creatures die he will bear a stone in his heart for the rest of his life. This ethic holds gravity as the coming-of-age story evolves. In the summer, the boy is a lustful teenager who becomes romantically entwined with a sick girl, brought to the temple to convalesce. The wise monk cautions the boy that lust will turn into the desire for possession and the intention to murder. But the headstrong young man doesn't listen and rushes out to discover worldly excitement. As the seasons flow from hot summer, through autumn, to icy cold winter, the young monk matures and the temple becomes etched with life experience. The film presents a poignant insight into Buddhist philosophy with unforgettable images that will linger in the mind long after the film has ended.

Sunday 20 June (Sun 20/06 at 3pm and Mon 21/06 at 6:30pm)

@ Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 (020.7887.8008) Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars

How artists pick their inspiration and content can be baffling. Some just like thick paint, while others prefer fame, and while some art presents reportage or anthropology, others choose to find beauty. Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have christened Tate Modern's new gallery Untitled, Bankside's version of Tate Britain's Art Now room. The Berlin-based duo (born in Denmark and Norway respectively) are known for their installations, performances and environmental works that engage with our sense of architectural surroundings. Where some spaces have been reorganised or redesigned, part of one dealer's office was even moved to another site altogether. Here at Tate B they're presenting two projects: Building Identities (Sun 20/06), which allows them to trawl through the Tate's film-video archive to screen those that demonstrate how architecture affects psychology, and, on Mon 21/07 there are historical tours by former employees of the power station (Tate Modern). No doubt all those "white cubes" have plenty of tales to tell... Intrigued? This is a much younger and more complex version of Michael Asher's project of making us aware of the environment around art.

NB: Building Identities include Un Chant d'Amour (Jean Genet, 1951), Living Inside (Sadie Benning, 1989), Skyline (Magnus Wallin, 2000), among others. Untitled is organised around eight-week-long displays or projects and Elmgreen and Dragset runs till 04/07.

Monday 21 June (21/06 till 05/07)

@ Various venues

Basel is about to open its gates to the art-mongering hordes, and Manifesta, has already opened while the Whitney Biennial is long behind us (though some of us are still waiting for our catalogues). And, before the Frieze Art Fair arrived, London was not really offering much save for an international art museum and the odd old master. Now the crew at Art Fortnight (who handily also provide an expert concierge service) have put together two weeks' worth of art bustling. What makes this different from your usual art tour is the sheer range of old master galleries and auction houses involved, no doubt because the auction season is on, but for us it presents an opportunity to round up our annual dose of Vitamin "Serious-Art". Highlights include a posh champagne/canape opening at the Tate's Hopper show (Mon 21/06 at 8:30pm), an Art Newspaper debate over politics, artists and responsibility with AC Grayling, Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, among others (Tue 29/06 at 6pm), a tour of Delfina Studios with Modern Painter's editor Karen Wright (Tue 22/06 at 1pm), a conversation with collector Frank Cohen about his collection (Tue 22/06 at 4pm), a talk with conceptual artist Pavel Buchler followed by a preview (Wed 23/06 at 4pm), Tracey Emin's Sketch party (Tue 22/06 at 8:30pm), an Artprojx talk between Andrew Renton and Hans Ulrich-Obrist (Tue 29/06 at 6pm), as well as visits to various auctions, gallery walks and late openings. Wow! (Runs till 05/07.)

NB: check the website for full details.

Monday 21 June (Mon 21/06 till Sun 27/06: day events 12 - 6pm and evening events start 9pm)

@ The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, WC1 (020.7833.3644) Tube: Russell Square

Andrew McKenzie is the main member behind The Hafler Trio (aka h3o), that "collective enchanted loom" formed in 1980 alongside Chris Watson, film director Peter Greenaway, :zoviet*france:'s Ben Ponton, noise musician Zbigniew Karkowski, artist John Duncan, among many others. Since its inception, the collective has been marking the '80s music industry with impressive sound works full of genuine cut and paste, collage or tape manipulations. After a long silent interlude from 1996 to 2002, he has started working on new releases and collaborating with "contemporary" artists such as Autechre, Young God Records' Michael Gira and members of the Icelandic group Sigur Ros. His latest offering is the wonderfully packaged (and very limited) three-CD-set How to Slice a Loaf of Bread, of which parts I and II are a marvellous drone-based work which appeared on the label Phonometrography. On this unique and rare occasion, McKenzie will be in London for a week-long event that will include performances ("action" 1, 2 and 3 on 21/06, 24/06 and 27/06), installations, a film and Q&A session. There will also be the chance to have an evening meal with the sound genius but early bookings are essential in order to follow such punctual events.

NB: runs till 27/06. The event will also include a "very special guest". Check the programme for full details.

Monday 21 June (7:45pm)

@ Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, SE1 (0870.401.8181) Tube: Embankment/Waterloo

"I'm sorry, I'm off to check out some Siberian throat-warbling" has got to be one of the best excuses when invited by D-list friends to spend another lifeless evening down the pub. Singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia gives you the option thanks to an adventurous partnership with two members of Huun Huur Tu -- a Tuvan throat-warbling outfit hailing from the mountain ridges of southern Siberia. It's a dream gig for Nastasia, who counts John Peel and Steve Albini among her growing fan base. Her mercurial folk songs -- part-sweet melody, part-force ten gale -- will be augmented by an array of nature-inspired tunes and textures courtesy of the igil (horse hair cello) and doshpuluur (long-necked lute), among other instruments. Check out Nina's latest John Peel session through the Beeb's trendy radio online service. Quickly converted fans will also be pleased to hear her rare-as-hens'-teeth album Dogs (Touch and Go) is getting a proper and well-deserved UK release.

Tuesday 22 June (7:30pm)

@ 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, E1 (020.7247.3293) Tube: Aldgate East/Liverpool St.

Radio 4, like all good post-punk bands surfacing from the leftfield US underground, clearly reference their late '70s/early '80s influences: named after a PiL song (not the dear old Beeb's wordy word channel), they follow in the footsteps of danceable rockers Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, then Primal Scream, and take their place within the new roll call of NYC punk-with-a-dance-twist acts, alongside The Rapture, and !!! (chk chk chk). They crown their hipster credentials by having had acclaimed label/producer duo DFA (Death From Above) work their magic on their second album, Gotham!, (2002). Their much anticipated third LP, Stealing of a Nation -- an unmasked reference to the scandalous Bush election of 2000 -- is in the pipeline, released here this autumn on City Slang, home to Schneider TM, Tortoise, To Rococo Rot et al. In the meantime, the five-piece, arguably sat on the more sonically adventurous side of the NYC new punk fence, bring scratchy guitars and dubby grooves to the East End for a one-off London preview. The Brooklyn headliners are supported by Mute-signed Kaito, current darlings of the similarly angular UK scene, and a DJ set by dancefloor Jedi Knight, Tom Middleton.

Tuesday 22 June (8pm)

@ Barbican Centre, Barbican Centre, EC2 (020.7638.8891) Tube: Barbican

It seems such a short time ago that Flash fave Zaha Hadid was just making swish drawings for a Hong Kong club. Then came the big break with a fire station in Germany. Now the tempestuous one is huge, having had several major commissions come off but also winning the Pritzker. Need we really say more? Her first patron and Vitra chairman, Rolf Fehlbaum, has said that she'd be a great architect without ever having built anything, but the "swooshy-one" is literally putting ideas together (or deconstructing them) visually while making domiciles all at the same time; architecture is about shelter after all. Now the London Architecture Biennale, with the Barbican, is putting on the biggest architectural lecture ever in the UK (1150+ seats; the record being 900+ for Rem at the Queen Elizabeth Hall) -- an event in itself, but with Zaha it should be a statement of intent. Finally, that leaves one question, when are we going to have a Zaha for this fine capital?

NB: prior to the event there will be a charity auction of significant modern furniture for Shelter and The Architecture Education Trust. For other events, check their website for details.

Special Offer: when booking, quote "KultureFlash offer" and receive two tickets for the price of one. For the offer call 0870.247.1207 or got to www.londonbiennale.org.uk.

Wednesday 23 June (7pm)

@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly Circus

Provided you don't consider Matthew Collings' formulaic brand of disingenuous self-parody-cum-interview YBA'ness offensive to the core of your soul, then you should go hear him talking to Design-Hero and grand guru of the design-fetish demographic, Ron Arad. Arad is one of the true survivors of the late-20th-century designer-celebrity boom and now has a handy sinecure as Head of Design Products at the RCA and a factory somewhere spewing out design monographs. The latest (Phaidon) in the long line of these tomes takes the form of a platonic dialogue with our own lovely David-Bellamy-of-the-art-world, Matthew. Arad's legacy is a strong claim to have saved the damsel of aesthetics from the fire-breathing, manic over-excitement of post-modern product design. So he has every right to be chuffed, good on the lad. Matthew, meantime, maintains that he still doesn't know anything about Design, which seems strange as he's just published a book on it, but somehow not inconceivable. Maybe they'll talk about the book, or about the dialogue, and maybe they'll just hum. All very PM and it's at the ICA too, so you never know...

NB: For other design gurus, note that '80s Mancunian Peter Saville has the keys to the city. The seminal creative director will be at the ICA (25/06). And, on Sat 19/06 check out Zest For Life: Fernando + Humberto Campana that opens at the Design Museum (runs till 12/09).

Giveaway: We have one copy of Phaidon's Ron Arad/Matthew Collings book to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked Flasher who can tell us from which architectural institution Arad received his degree.

Ends Thursday 24 June

@ Various cinemas across London

Take one long road trip, throw in a bit of jeopardy and a survival against the odds, and what do you get? A love story, of course; which is how Japanese Story rolls along, chucking in a few comments on the cultural differences (and cliches, at times a little predictably) between Australia and Japan, along with some stunning shots of the desert in Western Australia. Until, that is, a twist of fate turns the story down a very different road. A stunning performance from the ever-surprising Toni Colette is what really makes this small, arty film, that takes you on a rollercoaster of emotions from sweetness through to sadness, and leaves you pondering some of the big questions of life.

Ends Saturday 26 June (Tue to Sat 11am - 6pm)

@ Andrew Mummery, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High St., E1 (020.7729.9399 ) Tube: Old Street

Philip Akkerman is an artist who paints self-portraits. That's all. Now numbering over 2000, he has been exclusively painting his own image since 1981. The process begins with a drawing or tracing from a mirror. Akkerman then develops the painting from that image; thus, like an aspect of Postimpressionism, it's a work from memory. He is working with ideas of representation, time's passage and remembrance. However, unlike the Postimpressionists, it's a project he intends to continue through the rest of his life, and in that regard it is highly ambitious. The Dutchman, perhaps somewhat like his fellow countryman Van Gogh, has reinvigorated this particular genre with both an emotional depth as well as a conceptual rigour ("to paint one portrait a day until the end of days"). Hung closely in a line of 20, Akkerman has painted himself 3/4 profile from his shoulders, in varying lighting conditions and on occasion with a hat on. The result is a fluid line of emotions, hairstyles, and even guises. A statement perhaps about the loose nature of individuality or even artistic styles, as Akkerman reinvents his painting style from year to year, but most important, with each stroke of the brush he is marking that unrelenting passage of time. (Runs till 26/06.)

NB: while out East, catch Alice Neel at Victoria Miro and Sarah Morris at White Cube.

Saturday 26 June (4pm)

@ ICA, The Mall, SW1 (020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross/Piccadilly Circus

"But have you heard of a certain Toni Negri?" Michel Foucault once asked. "Isn't he in prison for simply being an intellectual?" Well, Europe's most renowned political prisoner is now no longer an inmate of Rome's Rebibbia Prison, where (in collaboration with the American academic Michael Hardt) he wrote the groundbreaking book Empire (Harvard University Press, 2000). Hardt and Negri argued that post-Communist globalisation had constituted a new form of political order -- a new kind of sovereignty: The declining autonomy of nation-states does not indicate a loosening of sovereignty but in fact its unprecedented concentration, not in a single territorial centre of power but rather in a single logic of rule. It finds itself opposed, not by the old national proletariats, but by a single revolutionary force that Hardt and Negri call the multitude -- and which is to be the subject of their next book, announced for publication this autumn.

Ends Sunday 27 June (Wed to Sun 12pm - 6pm)

@ The Approach, 47 Approach Rd., E2 (020.8983.3878) Tube: Bethnal Green

As a term, "optical illusion" sounds derogatory. It suggests a malfunction of the visual system. Such phenomena ought to be regarded as bringing out specific good adaptations to normal viewing situations. A native Turk living and working in London, the Beck's Futures shortlistee Haluk Akakce's digitally animated videos, Blind Date and Landscape with Lake, create artificial manipulations of our interface with the external world, generating an output that affects us on a more cerebral level: simple geometric forms and colours are repeated to create vibrating effects, shadows are distorted to produce foreground-background illusions, motion after effects are brought into play to leave us slightly unbalanced. In the tradition of Op and Minimal Art, the rules that the eye/brain apply to make sense of a visual image become part of the substance of the artwork. Forms in perpetual flux evoke perception and memory through the use of uninterrupted looped editing, but this flux always represents a return to the same condition. Through processes of continuous transformation and readjustment, a world of apparently infinite possibilities is created, only to retrogress to the uncertainty of the initial state, much like the paradigm of an actual blind date... (Runs tills 27/06.)

NB: while in that neck of the woods catch Hannah Starkey at Interim Art.

Ends Sunday 4 July (Fri to Sun 1 - 6pm)

@ Transition Gallery, 110a Lauriston Rd., E9 (07941.208.566) Tube: Mile End/Bethnal Green

Today it's not unusual to see images of death and despair, and although you occasionally hear murmurings, you rarely hear of outrage. So why do we react so strongly when the image takes the form of a painting? Particularly those by Stella Vine who, in typical Saatchi shock-hype, first appeared in our papers as the stripper single mum who had the bailiffs at her door, when Saatchi came to the rescue. Perhaps it's the lack of an immediate connection between artist and sitter or the good/bad painting method that makes the work haunting. But Vine, who is rarely acknowledged for more than "distasteful" perceptions of Princess Diana and Rachael Whitear, knows -- intentionally or no -- how to hit a nerve. And, like many of her fellow Saatchis, is not doing badly out of it because everyone loves an "outsider", even if they're really not. This exhibition sees Vine again directing her gaze at people she is irresistibly drawn to, but here creates something much closer to self-exploration as she mixes images from the pages of Now and photo albums with her own unconscious impulsive technique to create work we can all relate to, even if it's Auntie Ella. (Runs till 04/07.)

NB: Stella Vine's work is currently being exhibited in New Blood at the Saatchi Gallery until 04/07.

Ends Saturday 7 August (Mon to Sat 7:30pm; Sat mat 3:30pm)

@ Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, SW1 (020.7565.5000) Tube: Sloane Square

At only 25, Conor McPherson burst onto the stage with The Weir, an unassuming but vital play showing that his was a talent to be reckoned with. In the intervening seven years the playwright has written and directed several more works on stage and celluloid with moderate success, but for Shining City critics are once again dusting off their superlatives. A recently bereaved middle-aged salesman turns to a therapist for succour, though the latter wrestles with his own great anxieties; while little action develops the small space is home to much turbulent dialogue. The Weir was situated in a remote pub in a landscape echoing with solitude and isolation; in comparison Shining City is in cosmopolitan and complicated Dublin, but equally demonstrates the wintry distance that contemporary Irish men construct around themselves, though the insights offered here are by no means exclusive to the play's demographic. Comparisons with Synge, Yeats and Beckett are valid; McPherson has added a further essential work to the canon of Irish drama.

NB: runs tills 07/08.