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Another World: Losing Our
Children to Islamic State
National Theatre, London SE1
4/5
AFTER months of research and countless interviews, Another World arrives at the National. It’s fresh from the impressive stable of Nicolas Kent and Gillian Slovo who, at the Tricycle theatre in north-west London, gave us Guantanamo and The Riots.
Another significant landmark in Kent’s verbatim tradition, this documentary-style collection of personal accounts and opinions serves to stimulate inquiry into one of the biggest seismic movements of our time — the rise of the so-called Islamic State and its appeal to the young.
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