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Love in a Foreign Land
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AN elderly woman looks back on her life in London that began in 1959 when she travelled by boat from Cyprus to seek out her husband, an irresponsible charmer who has gone off the radar.
“You must do things differently,” she urges in frustration from one side of the stage as her younger self attempts to rescue the marriage on the other, knowing that she can’t change the past.
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