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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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Bug, Found111
My skin is still tingling with the presence of imaginary critters. Never mind I’m A Celebrity… or Bear Grylls’s latest expedition – Tracy Letts has got them beat when it comes to nightmarish creepy-crawlies. But it’s not just a creature feature: … Continue reading
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Tagged america, bug, drama, found111, gulf war, james norton, kate fleetwood, london, mental illness, Oklahoma, paranoia, review, surveillance, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre, tracy letts
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The Trial, Young Vic
Judgement is inescapable in Richard Jones’s punishing version of Kafka’s novel. Miriam Buether’s striking design makes the audience a voyeuristic jury, ranged on benches in the queasily lit courtroom, with the accused toiling before us on a rolling travelator. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, book, court, crime, drama, freud, guilt, hugh skinner, islington gazette, james joyce, jury, justice, kafka, law, legal, london, nick gill, novel, play, politics, punishment, review, richard jones, rory kinnear, sex, shame, state, surveillance, terrorism, terrorist, the trial, theatre, trial, young vic
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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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