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Mini seagulls, fish and chips, rolls of nets and boats on sticks

Divisive issues are the mainstays of modern politics. Can theatre help people to confront them?

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Alf from In Our Hands. Credit: Richard Davenport. All rights reserved.

With Britain voting to leave the European Union (EU) in June of 2016 and increasing pressures on sustainable food supplies, a visual theatre and puppetry show about trawler fishing might be the last thing people would turn to for inspiration. But that’s what we at Smoking Apples have tried to do in In Our Hands, a theatre production that’s now on tour around the United Kingdom.