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Roy Marshall - Decree no. 2015
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An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
Decree no. 2015
Roy Marshall
Calm as a mass of Kevlar helmets assembled beneath a flag
or stacked heat-seeking heads awaiting discharge
we shall pursue the following goals;
if deemed applicable, the slowest runner shall be caught,
his or her head, blown off. Monkeys may be mown from trees,
collaterally. A beetle might be all that survives
to crawl through ash on a hospital floor. The street
will be supplied with ignition until it flames, brandy-blue,
the school draped in drifts of smoke that shift
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