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Come on in, the water's dystopian! JG Ballard's Drowned World hits an Essex pool by Stuart Jeffries

A Chelmsford swimming baths has turned Ballard's prescient apocalyptic novel into a truly immersive performance. Our writer pulls on his trunks and dives in It's Saturday night in Chelmsford, and 100 people are waiting for security to admit us into a postapocalyptic hellscape. We aren't queuing outside Wetherspoons, but standing in our swimwear in the changing rooms of the Riverside leisure centre. We're here for the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM on March 10, 2020

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