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Power Of Sail (Menier Chocolate Factory, London)

Verdict: Polished but puzzling

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Power of Sail is a curious drama about a Harvard professor (Julian Ovenden) who finds himself in a fix after inviting a far-right White Nationalist to speak at a campus conference.

'The answer to hate speech, is more speech,' he glibly claims in Paul Grellong's David Mamet-ish drama spun from the tightening noose of a tawdry compromise.

The problem is that Grellong's play goes on to suggest that a legitimate way to defeat white supremacists' 'distortion of truth and omission of facts' can be… the distortion of truth and omission of facts.