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- ↑ Theatre Record -2007 Page 224 "The Eleventh Capital is part of the Court's Young Writers' Festival, and its author, Alexandra Wood, is in her early 20s. Yet it feels as if it's been written by an even younger writer. It's stuck in some Orwellian totalitarian regime."
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