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Review: More Life - Royal Court - southlondon.co.uk

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Live forever or switch off? It is 1803, and murderers are hung, spirited away and dissected by surgeons seeking to know more about the human body. Next up, Luigi Galvani sends electricity through a corpse, and it twitches. Jump to 2074 when medical science has moved on and minds of the rich and recently deceased can be downloaded into young, fit humanoids to start their lives over, writes Dan Martin. That’s the theory. The reality is that the te…

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Review: More Life - Royal Court - southlondon.co.uk

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More Life – The Royal Court - North West End UK

AdvertisementsExample Ad #1 (only visible for logged-in visitors) More Life is an exceptional and bold production, taking an ambitious and complex story and realising it expertly on stage. The play takes us inside the research lab of Edius, who are trying to upload the consciousness of dead people back into new, robotic bodies. After many failed attempts, Bridget is uploaded, and the promising signs she displays lead Victor (Marc Elliott) into a…

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Review Round Up: More Life, Royal Court Theatre

We round up the reviews for Lauren Mooney and James Yeatman‘s play running at the theatre until the 8th March. (c)Helen Murray The Guardian: **** “Most of Kandinsky’s work began at New Diorama under David Byrne, now artistic director of the Royal Court. More Life is a bright indication of the vision he brings with him. The pace drops in the second half, but there’s so much to engage with. Beyond intellectual and ethical debates, this play stabs …

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More Life – Royal Court, London - The Reviews Hub

Writer: Lauren Mooney Director: James Yeatman Luigi Galvani’s discovery that passing electric currents through dead animals would cause them to twitch and convulse as if alive was the start of understanding how the body and brain interact. It was also the catalyst for a new breed of Gothic horror, most notably Frankenstein. More Life, the … The post More Life – Royal Court, London appeared first on The Reviews Hub.

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