In a meadow of long summer grass, a Flat-coated Retriever looks the wrong way, ears up and puzzled, with a red ball just visible in the grass behind him, while a Black man in his forties a little way off laughs and points past him.

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It’s Behind You!

Every pantomime has the moment. The ghost creeps on behind the dame, and five hundred people shout “It’s behind you!” She looks left. She looks right. She turns, the ghost turns with her, and the theatre howls, because the one person who needs to know is facing the wrong way.

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