MATTHEW HAWKINS witnesses a contemporary ballet that represents human life as subjected to artificial intelligence
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Rise Up
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5/5
OFTEN theatre in education lacks a sharp edge but Lisa Evans’s new play Rise Up cuts like a knife.
Detailing the story of the Freedom Riders, who risked their lives to fight the Jim Crow laws that segregated the US South in the 1960s, this play rides the full gamut of emotions, while managing to connect the past and the present with very few bumps in the road.
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