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Theatre Review: Jubilee
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Jubilee
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
THE RELEASE of Derek Jarman’s chaotic, anarchic punk film Jubilee in 1978 was sandwiched between the current monarch’s silver jubilee and Thatcher taking power.
British society was broken. Mass unemployment, soaring inflation, increasing industrial strife and young people becoming alienated from a ruling elite who showed no interest in them or their future was very much the reality of the time.
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