Surfing Tommies

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Surfing Tommies is a 2009 play by the Cornish author Alan M. Kent. It follows the lives of three members of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry on a journey from the mines of Cornwall to the fields of Flanders, where they learn to surf from South African troops. [1] It has been adapted as a radio play [2] and was toured round Cornwall by Bish Bash Bosh Productions in 2009 and nationally in 2011. [3]

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References

  1. "Surfing Tommies". Archived from the original on 2013-05-05.
  2. BBC. "Surfing Tommies".
  3. Kent, Alan M (19 May 2011). "Why theatre needs a Cornu-copia of regional dialects". The Guardian. London.