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FRESH APPROACH: Louis Greenberg
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JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
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MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
IN THE near future our world collectively turns its back on intrusive digital technology in Green Valley by Louis Greenberg (Titan).
Most people are no longer content to have their lives run by connected devices which are themselves run by unaccountable corporations. The surveillance state of the early 21st century is dead and buried — or, at least, it's buried.
There's just one quarantined enclave where people still insist on living the cyberspace way — Green Valley. That's where police consultant Lucie's niece lives with her family and that's where the girl has gone missing. Lucie's going to have to go in there to find her and hope she can get out again.
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