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A Diamond-studded evening of human drama John Walsh ON MONDAY
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The Independent - London
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February 7, 2000
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Copyright informationCopyright 2000 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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FOR CONNOISSEURS of human drama, Saturday evening saw an
exceptional event. At the Grace Theatre above the Latchmere pub in
Battersea, south London, a few dozen media luminaries gathered, in a
space hardly bigger than a walk-in cupboard, to see a play whose main
character was sitting in the audience, watching an actor using his
words in a way he could no longer use them himself.
John Diamond, the nation's most articulate chronicler of the dark
thrall of cancer, is the subject of A Lump in My Throat: John Diamond
and Me, adapted by Victoria Coren from Diamond's three-year column in
The Times magazine.
The play is both an embodiment of the feisty, sardonic,
attitudinous Diamond persona, and ...
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