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'You don't understand anything about Europe': 1947 play Cockpit blazes back by Mark Fisher

Bridget Boland's long-lost drama about a refugee centre was ahead of its time in the way it blurred the lines between actor and audience. Now, Wils Wilson's revival makes its depiction of ethnic conflict more pertinent than everBridget Boland's play Cockpit opened in London in February 1948, in the long shadow cast by the second world war. The situation it described " a displaced persons (DP) assembly centre housing …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AM on October 9, 2017

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