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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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