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9-5: The Musical
The Polish Theatre, London
A LINGERING life regret: passing up the opportunity to go to Dollywood, the Dolly Parton-themed attraction in the Tennessee Smoky Mountains.
Driving past the gates, thinking: what madness lies within there? Plastic surgery seminars? Malfunctioning animatronic country singers? Roller-coasters with two enormous humps? I suppose we will never know.
Dolly inhabits a larger-than-life position in the US “self-made” psyche, but she’s one of the good ones: when the revolution comes, we will need to renationalise Parton.
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