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As an Englishman who has lived in the East so long that nobody is quite sure where I come from any more, I wrote Xanadu to play with the whole rather spurious idea of cultural identity. If you are sharp you will notice that it is about a poem written about Mongolia, in the Lake District, under the influence of narcotics from India; where a debate ensues as to whether an Indian computer game based upon the exoticism of Coleridge's ideas should replace the lyrics with those of a Punjabi drag artist rapper to make them more relevant to the iPod generation of India; and a jet lagged Englishman loses his trousers in a dodgy Bollywood party awash with narcotics from South America. The Bangra, another hybrid, rather like the English language itself, also features. Other than that, nothing much happens.
About the Author
Lawrence Gray is an award winning screenwriter with credits in UK and Singaporean TV drama. He lives in Hong Kong and is partners in a film production company, developing movie projects for India, China and the international English language market. In 2006 his screenplay “Fat Englishmen” won the Hong Kong Film Finance Forums award for Best Hong Kong Film Project and is presently being developed in partnership with a Hollywood production company. He founded the Hong Kong Writers' Circle and as Chairman, has been long involved in the development of the Hong Kong English language literary scene. If pressed by strangers for a description of what he does, he says media personality, in order to avoid saying writer and having to explain the lot of the screenwriter and the nature of the beast.
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