MATTHEW HAWKINS witnesses a contemporary ballet that represents human life as subjected to artificial intelligence
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Architects of war resistance
Bent Architect’s new production England, Arise! is a welcome antidote to the Establishment narrative of WWI, says Bernadette Hyland
by Marwa Paikan
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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Bent Architect are not a left-wing theatre group in the traditional sense.
But with England, Arise! they have produced one of the few dramas this year which challenges the government’s propaganda about the first world war.
It is the story of the people who refused to be conscripted into the army in 1916 and the communities that supported them.
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