To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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THERE'S something simultaneously funny and ominous about the way we initially meet Cassie in Kirsty Osmon's one-woman show Awakening.
She's lying face down in what we soon realise is a stranger's front garden, a skewed happy birthday party hat on her head. Stevie Wonder's Happy Birthday plays cheerfully and, as the show begins, a groggy Cassie is woken by the tinkle of the smartphone still clutched in her hand.
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