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Slow Train to Izmir is a play written by Mark Angus. It has been performed at the Southwark Playhouse where it was directed by Maggie Zolinsky. The play is based on a true story and focuses on the Anglo-Dutch archaeologist James Mellaart. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he was accused of in turn stealing an invaluable collection of Neolithic artefacts found near Dorak in Turkey and ultimately of fabricating their entire existence.