MAYER WAKEFIELD is entertained but let down by an audacious production that, sadly, doesn't ring true
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No Future
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MINDBENDER: Adam Welsh
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KEN COCKBURN traces the one original language – that of the Yamnaya pastoral nomads – from which all European and Indian languages derive
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NO FUTURE is the brainchild of Adam Welsh, who produces and performs as himself in this livestreamed performance from Camden People’s Theatre in London.
The meaning of the work’s startlingly miserabilist title reveals itself only gradually as a brave journey into the mind of one man and, through him, into the workings of the human brain itself.
At one point TS Eliot is quoted: “Time past and time future … what might have been and what has been … point to one end, which is always present” and it’s a clue to the play’s meaning.
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