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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

Turn Your F*cking Phones Off review – a tremendous takedown of big tech

A performer sings into a microphone under red light, with an audience seated against a striped backdrop
Digital detox … Hannah Maxwell in Turn Your F*cking Phones Off. Photograph: Lukasz Izdebski

Last year, Hannah Maxwell laid out three blueprints for an Edinburgh fringe hit. In her show Babyfleareindeerbag, she tested out a series of ideas in a hilarious exercise in market research.

In other circumstances, she might have returned with a full-length version of the one about her father’s teddy bear puppets – something cute and whimsical – but the state of the world persuaded her otherwise. She went for the one about the threat of the tech bros.

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