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Tom Basden: finding the funny in the prison of your personality by Stephanie Merritt

As Holes opens in London, the playwright talks about the loneliness of standup, his affection for his characters and having a plane-crash comedy open at the time of a real air disasterVery rarely, reality has the knack of upstaging art with a spectacularly unforeseen twist. Tom Basden's play Holes is set on a desert island in the aftermath of a plane crash. Three of the four survivors are colleagues on their way to a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PM on July 22, 2014

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