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Tereza Briggs-Novaes' latest play September has returned to London at a new venue, The Space in East London. And it's right on time. I saw it at the Calder Bookshop Theatre in the Cut last spring but its return is in tune with its title – and arguably the most famous September date in human history. So 9/11 is writ large on all of our memories but there was another, earlier catastrophic event on another 11 September. In 1973, there was a coup in Chile when General Augusto Pinochet overturned the socialist government of President Salvador Allende, ended civilian rule and unleashed a reign of terror on the country. Politics then underlies everything in this play but at its heart is a very human story. Briggs-Novaes' lead character is a woman who has lived through both 9/11s. In the first, we see her as an idealistic young New Yorker living in Santiago, her friends political activists on the left, including her lover, a fellow American and eventually her husband. In the s ....

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