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Authentic Voices is a special Anvil Arts project, created by a professional team working with members of the community, which looks back fifty years to a world of innocence and uncertainty. According to the poet Philip Larkin, teenage life began in 1963 'Between the end of the ?Chatterley' ban and the Beatles' first LP.' It was also the beginning of the peak time for people leaving London to take up residence in Basingstoke under the government re-housing scheme, which saw the once small market town transformed first into a building site and then a sprawling community divided between incomers and locals, at the outset no more inclined to like each other than the Montagues and Capulets of Verona. No Time to Woo is a play, devised with teenage pupils of Aldworth Science College, and based on the recollections of their elders, about the conflicting aspirations either side of that divide in 1963, and what happened the first time teenage love dared to cross it.

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