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KARATE BILLY COMES HOME
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Royal Court Theatre
By Klaus Pohl
Translated by David Tushingham
Directed by Stephen Unwin
Co-designed with Lucy Weller
Lighting by Paul Armstrong
Sound by Bryan Bowen
Photography by John Haynes
Karate Billy Comes Home followed the story of a local sporting hero as he returned to his East German village, after 13 years spent away in a mental institution for allegedly planning to defect. The play was written by Klaus Pohl, one of Germany's foremost contemporary playwrights.
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