★★☆☆☆The poster for this much-trumpeted Fringe extravaganza from the Danish company Fix + Foxy bears a rave from no less a figure than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who calls it “one of the most innovative, provocative, powerful pieces of theatre I have ever seen”. Strap yourselves in, then, for a bloodthirsty, satirical romp through the early history of the United States.
Yet does the piece – performed by a small troupe of South African actors, all but one of them black – actually have anything new or interesting to say about the founding myths of the American Dream? Well, I suppose if you haven’t been to the cinema since the release of, say, Gone with the Wind, you may well be surprised to learn that
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