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There’ll always be an England
MIKE QUILLE relishes political theatre at its most entertaining, engaging and effective
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England and Son,
Summerhall, Edinburgh
He’s done it again!
A few years ago, Ed Edwards exploded into Edinburgh with A Political History of Smack and Crack, performed at the Fringe Festival. It was a brilliant piece of political theatre, setting personal stories of drug addiction in ’80s Britain against the background of brutal Tory policies of deindustrialisation and the historical encouragement of the international drugs trade by the US, Britain and France in the course of their imperialist adventures.
Now he’s back in Edinburgh, together with Mark Thomas, the actor, comedian and political activist, with the equally explosive England and Son, which could well have been called “The Political History of Toxic Masculinity.”
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