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Interiors
Royal Lyceum Theatre
Edinburgh International Festival
4/5
Scotland’s innovative Vanishing Point Theatre Company, directed by its founder Matthew Lenton, never fails to challenge the nature of traditional theatre.
Interiors could have been entitled The Sound of Silence. It disposes with dialogue, or at least any dialogue its audience hear.
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