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The Machine Stops review " EM Forster's chilling vision by Susannah Clapp

York Theatre RoyalThis adaptation of the novelist's prescient 1909 short story is impressively nimbleA woman looks into a screen showing the face of her faraway son. Electronic music ping pongs around her. Surrounded by buttons that bring her hot water, fresh air, remote voices, she hardly ever travels. What is the point when Peking is pretty much the same as Shrewsbury?There is nothing like a long-ago look at what w…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21AM on May 22, 2016

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