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Mr. McDermott - Elizabeth K.
Teachers. We spend (what seems like) hours on end in the same room, learning and discussing, yet know nothing about them. But as it turns out, they’re just like us… Meet… Mr. McDermott, head of the English department Something you can’t live without? Sad to say—my telephone.
Guilty pleasure?
Any sort of cheese—absolutely love a simple meal of baguette and cheese.
Country you’ve visited and that you wish you could go Best Broadway play/musical? back to?
Favourite places ever were Laos and Cambodia—sim- Last play I saw in New York was Girls and Boys by Dennis Kelly starring Carey Mulligan. She was alone ply beautiful. on the stage and her performance was stunning. That's when you realise how much presence one person can Go-to breakfast food? have. Porridge and honey.
Best childhood memory?
One thing you’d bring on a desert island?
I think as a literature teacher I really must say books. If I had just one book to choose from, then I would probably choose a collection of short stories by variPineapple on pizza, crime against humanity or perfect ous writers. Or failing that, suntan lotion as otherwise I'll be burnt to a crisp. balance of flavors? Family holidays at the seaside (even when it rained most of the time).
I think that from a culinary point of view, it's probably a crime against humanity, but having said that, I don't Book that changed your life? The books that really made me fall in love with litactually dislike the taste! erature when I was younger are anything by Charles Dickens, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, The Best TV series? Six Feet Under, Breaking Bad or In Treatment (have Go-between by L.P Hartley and anything by Graham now watched the Israeli, American and French ver- Greene (with a special mention for Brighton Rock). These were the books that I devoured when I was at sions of this show and find them fascinating). school.
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