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Behind the Sheet review: Eye-opening play follows slaves’ story

Behind the Sheet review: Eye-opening play follows slaves’ story

18 January 2019

The story of the unsung slave women who helped end an excruciating condition by enduring surgery without anaesthetic makes a play that deserves a wide audience
All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work

All I Know is What's on the Internet review: The shocks don't work

14 January 2019

How has our visual culture adapted to the digital age? All too well, according to this show at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Is the internet losing its ability to surprise?

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