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- [1980x1989], [?2021] (Creation)
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1 folder (4 cm.)
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Early draft scripts of Tony Curtis's play Occupied Territory, which was performed at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff in the 1980s, together with information photocopied from printed sources relating to events portrayed in the play and rough manuscript notes in Curtis's hand. Also included are a significant amount of online printouts of a much later provenance, which may relate to Tony Curtis's novel Darkness in the City of Light (Seren Books, 2021), whose theme is practically identical to that of Occupied Territory (see June 2021 papers under heading Darkness in the City of Light (Seren Books, 2021)).
Drafts of play include amendments in Tony Curtis's hand.
Readers are cautioned that the play and accompanying background information relate to events which took place in World War II occupied France, chiefly the crimes and subsequent trial and execution of mass murderer Dr Marcel Petiot.
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- English
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Marcel Petiot was a French physician and serial killer. He was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of twenty-three people in the basement of his home in Paris during World War II. He is suspected of the murder of about sixty to two hundred victims during his lifetime, although the true number remains unknown. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Petiot)
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- Petiot, Marcel, Dr, 1897-1946 (Subject)