Play review - "A Local Man" by Bob Ellis and Robin McLachlan

 I'd be curious to see how this played on stage. A one man piece, with Ben Chifley talking into a dictaphone, and taking phone calls. It read well, like an essay - Ellis' essays are full of pieces on Chifley. He also loves to write about "oh poor me" and "if only". Mind you there's some interesting if onlys here... if only Labor hadn't lost Francis Forde or Nelson Lemmon (who I didn't know)... maybe. Most effective moment is him going to bed and the radio announces from four days later that he'd died.