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Square Rounds, Finborough Theatre review - the science behind warfare, told in verse

by Heather Neill

Didactic theatre piece stronger on facts than dramaThe title of Tony Harrison's teacherly entertainment - it can't be called a play - refers to the square bullets invented by James Puckle to kill Muslims in the Eighteenth Century. This shocking morsel of information is provided by the brothers Hiram and Hudson Maxim, inventors respectively of the machine gun and smokeless gunpowder, who are two of the characters in S…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 6:06pm on September 7, 2018