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The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary #11 Anglophiles

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Simon Sweetman
Jun 08, 2014
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Over the years Peter Tait and I have worked together on various theatre projects. One day he called me from Auckland, said he had roughed out a new play for the Watershed Theatre’s comedy festival and wanted my input. I flew up.

He had this idea for a comedy set in Christchurch in the early 50s – a spoof on white middle class pretensions to be as English…

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