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No Future
Complex streams of consciousness irk and illuminate
MINDBENDER: Adam Welsh
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
NO FUTURE is the brainchild of Adam Welsh, who produces and performs as himself in this livestreamed performance from Camden People’s Theatre in London.
The meaning of the work’s startlingly miserabilist title reveals itself only gradually as a brave journey into the mind of one man and, through him, into the workings of the human brain itself.
At one point TS Eliot is quoted: “Time past and time future … what might have been and what has been … point to one end, which is always present” and it’s a clue to the play’s meaning.
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