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Everybody wants and everybody needs. Alice knows this more than most because the trouble with Alice is she's spent that long thinking about everybody else she's forgotten that she wants and needs just as much as they do. Maybe it's time she did something about it? Chasing Rainbows carefully juxtaposes the working class reality of a Post-Thatcher Britain with New Labour's carefully polished promise of a new 'Cool Britannia' for all. The label is changed, but is the message really that different? Set in Sheffield in 1996, the play is a coming of age drama sound-tracked by the guitar riffs of Britpop. It relays the trials and tribulations of one family's journey as they come to terms with the fact that the challenges of life are best met head on and if at all possible, that they are faced together...

Creatives/Company

Author: Gavin Crippin
Company: Rebours Theatre Company