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The Conquest of the South Pole " review by Lyn Gardner

Arcola, LondonIt is often in the tiniest moments that hope is found. At the end of Edward Bond's play Saved, a chair is picked up to be mended. In Manfred Karge's The Conquest of the South Pole (1986), it is the cry of a baby at the very end of the play. Or is that cry simply one of despair, echoing back and forth across the years?Young men without work and without purpose, facing a future filled only with the pinbal…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AM on May 1, 2012

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