Great Apes review " Will Self's Swiftian satire puts chimps in charge by Lyn Gardner

Arcola, London This inventive adaptation of the novel set in an ape-dominated world pokes fun at human assumptions of evolution Will Self believes the novel is doomed. But the Arcola theatre in Dalston, east London, has playfully monkeyed about with his Swiftian satire, published in 1997, which pokes fun at the human belief that we are top of the evolutionary tree. It's spry stuff. This is by no means your typical pa…

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