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Theatre review: Little Revolution at the Almeida Theatre
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Rating: 2/5
If any event in our recent history requires urgent political analysis, then the August 2011 riots do.
They are the focus of Alecky Blythe’s new play and her approach to theatre — verbatim recordings of events, the voices of bystanders and local residents edited together into a script — ought to prove thought-provoking and revelatory in relation to the shameful events of three summers ago.
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