MATTHEW HAWKINS witnesses a contemporary ballet that represents human life as subjected to artificial intelligence
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Ghost from a Perfect Place, Arcola Theatre, London E8
4/5
Travis Flood, ’60s gangster, returns to the East End in London he once controlled. On the look out for sex, Flood rediscovers his past in the form of Torchie Sparks, whose family cinema Flood “protected” back in the “heydays.”
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