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Performance

VenueMercury Theatre
Also: Studio
TownColchester
CountyEssex
From14th November 2000
To18th November 2000
When19:30, Sat Mat 14:30
Mercury Theatre (V37)
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Rita, Sue and Bob Too/A State Affair

Work:: Rita, Sue and Bob Too/A State Affair (S1782722185)

Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Bradford 1982). A State Affair (Today's stories Yorkshire, 2000). Sharp, funny and disarmingly direct, Andrea Dunbar's semi-autobiographical Rita, Sue and Bob Too follows the lives of two feisty schoolgirls who grow up on a Bradford estate and start an affair with a married man. A comic classic Rita, Sue and Bob Too caught the mood of the early Thatcher years and became widely recognised as a marker of its time. Eighteen years later, life on Britain's council estates is back in the spotlight as reports of a hidden underclass begin to emerge. In the summer of 2000, Max Stafford-Clark and Out of Joint's actors journeyed back to the estates around Bradford and Leeds where Andrea Dunbar grew up. A State Affair is a record of what they found - has life there changed since the 1980's, or for that matter the 1880's? This production contains scenes and language which may offend some people.
Author Andrea Dunbar
Author Robin Soans

Production:: (T0659471338)

Company Out of Joint (in a co-production with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Soho Theatre Company)
Director Max Stafford-Clark
Design Es Devlin
Lighting Johanna Town
Performer Emily Aston
Performer Ian Redford
Performer Sally Rogers
Performer Emma Rydal
Performer Matthew Wait
Performer Gary Whitaker
Performer Jane Wood

Listing:: L767903144




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