Smoking / No Smoking

Smoking / No Smoking

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1993280 min6.5 / 10

A playful, intellectually ambitious dual-narrative exploring how a single moment branches into radically different lives, told through theatrical artifice and romantic entanglement.

Two actors portray eighteen Yorkshire villagers, who offer several iterations of their lives depending on whether or not they lit a cigarette at a certain point in time.

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