Arcola Theatre / Hightide Festival April & September 2016
Directed by Steven Atkinson
Lighting by Elliot Griggs
Photographs by Nobby Clark and Lily Arnold
Designer Lily Arnold’s impressive, multi-level set is now neon-edged, a marketplace of mass-produced, imitation goods and dead-end factory jobs. Mao’s goal of overtaking the rest of the world has come true, but with only cynical lip service paid to socialist principles. Tom Wicker, The Telegraph ***