Reviews are in for Tenet at the Gate

“A patchwork of lecture, storytelling and participation, Lorne Campbell and Sandy Grierson’s text is mischievous with its complexities, gentle with its key points and direct in its call for reform. ‘Asking questions we know the answer to won’t change anything.’ Exactly.” Time Out, **** Matt Trueman

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“Designer Garance Marneur’s elegant scarlet classroom includes a doll’s-house-sized version of the set – so miraculous it made the audience gasp. It invites us to consider the integrity of scale and its effect on the weighing of truth. Jon Foster’s genial Evariste Galois encourages audience collaboration (he even gets us humming “La Marseillaise”). But none of this is merely frivolous. The evening is intellectually spry – a collective experiment. If it has a single message, it is that the process matters more than the solution. This is Greyscale’s credo too.” The Observer, Kate Kellaway

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“Lucy Ellinson plays Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who knows that if you want to find what X is, you must ask why it is so. There are polynomial equations to be solved on boards (black and white, like the truth), a clever design feature of boxes within boxes to try to make us think outside them, audience participation (we hold hands and sing the Marseillaise) and tea. But beneath the delighted and knowing mischief-making is an urgency: we must change the world before it’s too late. Maths is not a bad place to start. After all, it was algebraic solutions to equations that gave us the hedge fund.” The Guardian, Lyn Gardner

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