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Defeatist assumptions mar ideological message
JAN WOOLF is thrilled by the theatre but laments the omission of any reference to collective consciousness in class struggle
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The Nobodies
Pleasance Theatre Islington
A NORTHERN town still hurts from the miners’ strike, but three young working-class friends hurt for another reason: the local hospital is to close.
Aaron’s mum is dying of cancer, Rhea’s job as a trainee nurse is at stake, and ringleader Curtis, a recently homeless graduate, burns with anger and revolutionary zeal.
The moving of hospital services 30 miles away will make lives that are already difficult wretched. But the trio are not too low to find the energy and organising power to resist an inhumane decision that’s in no-one’s interest, except those who will profit from it.
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