The job permitted Joplin time to write and play his own work.

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Can you put two days aside so I can teach you how to write a play?

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When they could not secure funding for a film, Mr Thacker commissioned Mr Vasili to write the play, called Tull.

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Not the type children play with and people write songs about, but the kind that when they burst, usually cause financial havoc.

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