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The Here and This and Now
Southwark Playhouse, London
THE HERE and This and Now dispenses a pharmacological mix of farce and tragedy.
Glenn Waldron’s play, in a Plymouth Theatre Royal production, begins at the “away day” of pharmaceutical company McCabe, with team-bonding exercises, chanting and rehearsed sales pitches performed with varying degrees of success.
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