SCOTT ALSWORTH hears the call to burn down and rebuild the video game industry from the bottom up
Ambitious political satire
GORDON PARSONS applauds one of those few brave plays to confront the politics of our world head on

The New Real
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon
SINCE his ground-breaking Destiny in 1976, exploring the complexities underlying the BNP surface of British fascism, there is an air of excited expectancy when David Edgar presents another of his epic dramatic analyses of the political scene.
Just as in his latest book, The Populist Right, examining the current explosion of right-wing movements throughout Europe, The New Real engages with the shift in the political tectonic plates throughout the continent.
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