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Great Apes, a new play by Patrick Marmion based on the novel by Will Self. Credit Daniel Lee FAD MAGAZINE

The World Premiere of Great Apes from the novel by Will Self reimagined for the stage by Patrick Marmion

Great Apes is a new play by Patrick Marmion directed by RSC and Donmar actor Oscar Pearce (Wolf Hall, Real Thing), based on the novel by Will Self. It is a raucous, surreal modern satire that mixes Self’s famously rich language with subtle simian movement and vocalisations to create a theatrical ‘Planet of the Apes’ crossed with ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.

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