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3 unusual facts about Privates on Parade


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Peter Nichols later adapted his experiences into a stage play (and later film) called Privates on Parade.

Privates on Parade

It was revived in 1979 at the Derby Playhouse, and again in 1982 with Bruce Payne as Flight Sergeant Kevin Cartwright and Tim Barlow.

The play is set around the activities and exploits of the fictional Song and Dance Unit South East Asia (SADUSEA), a mostly gay British military concert party stationed in Singapore and Malaysia in the late 1940s during the Malayan Emergency.



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