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Article: GEORGE ORWELL'S FIRST PLAY.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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IT'S not every day that a parent gets a chance to witness literary history being made at a school play, especially so if that parent's son has a leading part in it. I recall attending a performance, eight years ago, of a play entitled King Charles II by one Eric A. Blair. In 1932, this Mr. Blair was working as a harassed 29-year-old schoolmaster at the Hawthorns High Schools for Boys in Hayes, a suburb of West London known mainly throughout the world as the home of His Master 's Voice. Mr. Blair did not have many good words to say about Hayes, and did not enjoy teaching all that much either. His real ambition was to write, but a chap's got to eat, and teaching seemed like ...
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