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The Time of Our Lies
Park Theatre
★★★★
THE Time of Our Lies is a brutal, thought-provoking meditation on the importance of history in combating the all too common warmongering of our contemporary world leaders.
First staged at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it was nominated for an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, the play currently runs on the Park Theatre’s main stage.
“If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday,” noted American historian Howard Zinn tells us. “And if you were born yesterday, anybody in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”
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