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Unnerving devil in this detail of abuse

Orca
Southwark PlayhouseLondon SE1
5/5

“THE DEVIL smiled and marvelled this, ‘How loud, how vile silence is.’”

Sitting in their father’s carpentry workshop, Maggie has set her younger sister Fan a “very new, very hard” riddle: Who is the Devil? As things transpire, the answer’s easy enough.

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