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Alastair White, RUNE, Tête à Tête Festival, Round Chapel, Hackney, London, 17 August 2021.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2021

Extract

The setting is Khye-Rell, part of a web of worlds in our universe's distant future. In this society, history is forbidden. A young girl, Kes'Cha'Au’, crosses a series of ‘transdimensional canals’, journeying back through our own time and our looming ecological collapse. She reveals, at the heart of everything, the universe creating itself out of nothing: it inscribes itself like a rune.

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FIRST PERFORMANCES
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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