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Hack the planet!

Our Guest Editor this week is the sharp witted playwright Tim Price. He's had enough and he won't shut up about it. Instead of keeping quiet he writes plays, shouting from some of the UK's biggest stages about the mess we're all in: a young solider proclaimed an enemy of the state, a country on the verge of disintegration, a fight against capitalism that accidentally involves the homeless. It's headline material in 3D, circumventing the lack of trust in traditional media and the easy conclusions to afford everyone a breather and a chance to stop and reconsider.

Next up: hackers. Teh Internet Is Serious Business is a Royal Court commission that saw Price befriend Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam, two former LulzSec members, to tell the story of hactivism and its 'permanent dance with law and morality'. In anticipation we managed to get hold of Price for long enough to hear his musings on real-world interrogations from the stage, social mobility, IRL and online, and the devastating effect of privilege on theatre in general, and short actors in particular. Read our interview here.

Tim's cultural recommendations for us include HintHint - a live escape game; the film Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus that tells the story of the unlikely union between the Welsh Miners and a bunch of gay activists; and of course - he gives a nod to the People's Climate March taking place on Sunday 21 September - see you there!

As for the best of the rest, here's our quick fire round: Marina Abramović / Nick Cave / #hashtag / Something Very Far Away / Rime / The Case Against 8 / The Last Impressario / The Rabbit Hole / Eloise Fornieles / Allah-Las / Constructing Words: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age / Feral / Lawrence Weiner / and Bidders Bizarre!

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Here's to a righteously riotous week! Bottoms up! RRxx

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