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THE TITLE of this simple piece of storytelling by Matthew Morrison, performed by two socially distanced actors online, may at first seem misleading.
For this is not a visual display of choreography and movement but, instead, an intimate heart-to-heart with two beautifully drawn characters, Kemi and her dad Richard.
Kemi, who attends a London secondary school, inhabits a place of staggering loneliness, coloured only by the terrible bullying power of social media and the brutal herd mentality of schoolgirl enemies.
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