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The Haystack, Hampstead Theatre
With counter-terrorism an urgent concern – and specifically how best to find, track and use the data of suspected threats, without sacrificing our privacy and civil liberties – it’s excellent timing for a meaty drama about the surveillance state. And the … Continue reading
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Tagged al blyth, counter terrorism, data, edward snowden, free press, gchq, government, guardian, hacking, hampstead theatre, james graham, journalist, london, mass data collection, media, nsa, play, press, privacy, review, roxana silbert, security, security services, source, spy, state, surveillance, terrorism, terrorist, the haystack, theartsdesk, theatre, thriller, whistleblower
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The writing’s on the wall
“It is the most effective indictment of Nazism to appear in fiction,” proclaimed The New York Times Book Review of American author Kathrine Kressmann Taylor’s 1938 epistolary novella Address Unknown. Seventy-five years later, her work still packs a powerful punch in the form of … Continue reading
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Tagged address unknown, america, austerity, bnp, book, drama, economic downturn, edl, edward snowden, germany, hitler, holocaust, jazz, jew, letter, london, murder, nazi, new york times, novel, opera, play, recession, saki, second world war, soho theatre, surveillance, theatre, world world two
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