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#Charlottesville review – urgent voices against the alt-right’s extremist ideology

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghIn a confident verbatim show, Priyanka Shetty snaps from voice to voice to create a rich vision of the social fabric torn by the 2017 Unite the Right rally attack in Virginia‘If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention,” says one of the voices in this urgent verbatim show about the rise of the “alt-right”. Eight years ago this month, a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, resulted in three deaths and at least 19 serious injuries.If it did not attract the same level of global attention as the mob attack on the US Capitol three-and-a-half years later, it raised a similar red flag about the rise of extremist ideology in the US and beyond. Continue reading...

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