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Reviews: The divisive legacy of colonialism; E M Forster's A Passage to India is the latest novel to receive the Shared Experience treatment, reports Terry Grimley.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20021021
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Byline: Terry Grimley

Shared Experience has carved out such a successful niche in adapting classic novels for the theatre that it comes as quite a surprise to realise that A Passage to India is the first it has tackled from the 20th century.

Even then, it only just qualifies. Artistic director Nancy Meckler points out that while E M Forster's novel was published in 1924, he began writing it 14 years earlier, and it is very much about India before the ...

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