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After the Wall

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Klaus Pohl, playwright, actor and director writes about private emotions. His successful play 'Karate Billy Comes Home' is about German reunification and shows how Billy discovers who betrayed him to the secret police. His bold plays are realistic and dramatise major public disasters using journalistic research. He is a very lively, energetic, humorous man. Some of his plays with large casts have been considered sensationalist. He has lived in Rome and plans to live in New York in the autumn, as it is a challenging city where it is easier to be a foreigner.

Biography, Pohl, Klaus

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Flying in the face of reason

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It is vital to talk openly about the second world war, according to actor and playwright Masayuki Imai, who portrays kamikaze pilots in his play 'The Winds of God.' He indicates that this play makes no judgements about guilt or responsibility.

Imai, Masayuki

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The writer and the appliance of science

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Writers should give more attention to science, according to playwright Michael Frayn. He believes that a split between science and literature began to emerge in the late 19th century.

Frayn, Michael

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