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Brighton revolutionaries seize the day
JOE GILL is hooked by an urgent imagined rehearsal of what attempting to overthrow capitalism might look like
Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, 1872
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Unchain Me
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Brighton Festival
IF REVOLUTION in 2022 is anything like dreamthinkspeak’s Unchain Me, it will involve technical hiccups with tablets, waiting in the rain, and lots of flights of stairs.
In an immersive, intense plunge into a clandestine struggle against the powers that be in Brighton and Britain, groups of audience members are invited to join “the campaign” and to help overthrow the system.
Based loosely on Dostoevsky’s The Devils, the piece by Tristan Sharps (who is also Brighton Festival co-director this year) is an urgent imagined rehearsal of what attempting to overthrow capitalism might look like.
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